Are there any plans to add advanced features to the build-in DNS server.
I have a client that needs to set up Split DNS ( also referred to as “NAT Loopback” or “Hairpin Nat”) Need to create DNS zones etc.
Don’t really want to set up a separate DNS server if I don’t have to.
We don’t have exactly that but there are a couple of features that may be useful
You can add Local DNS Entries (NSE Group → DNS) so that abc.mycompany.net resolves to 192.168.1.100 rather than the public IP resolved by the upstream server
We have the ability to delegate certain zones to another DNS server. See the Conditional Forwarding Rules under NSE Group → DNS.
So for instance I have an Windows server at 192.168.1.50 running a DNS server which can resolve names for its AD clients, and the AD domain is mycompany.invalid.net, I’d add an entry for
domain mycompany.invalid.net
IP Address 192.168.1.50
then a request to resolve abc.mycompany.invalid.net goes to the DNS server running on 192.168.1.50 rather than the usual upstream DNS server. It simplifies the additional server a bit since it doesn’t need to be the resolving server used by all devices at the site but can just handle that zone.