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Retired_Member

Nov 19, 2020

ReadyNAS Timesync - thousands of queries per day to timesync server

Hi, having ReadyNAS 312 with the latest firmware 6.10.3 i am facing the following problem. Timesync settings are set to default and timesync is on. I think that NAS is doing timesync correctly, bec...

Retired_Member

Nov 25, 2020

Ok, thanks for answer. I will try disable Pi-Hole and watch DNS requests from ReadyNas using some Windows DNS server.

Today (18 hours) i have around 16k requests on my DNS server for hostname time.google.com translation to IP address.

In my opinion its much easier for edit purposes, to edit NTP server IP address in GUI than editing hosts file when needed.

schumaku

Guru - Experienced User

Nov 25, 2020

Retired_Member wrote:
In my opinion its much easier for edit purposes, to edit NTP server IP address in GUI than editing hosts file when needed.

This does offload your DNS infrastructure, but won't change anything about the cause of the short interval. Out of sight, out of mind?

Retired_Member
Nov 25, 2020
Yes. But i would like to solve the problem using legit way. Inserting just IP as NTP server's address is the latest option for me.

Currently i am running some DNS server on Windows called Simple DNS Plus and i have assigned this DNS server for ReadyNAS.
It works when I try to search update of ReadyNAS OS. It works, when i try to synchronize time using default netgear NTP servers.

But i am not seeing any more requests during last 30 minutes.. connmann.log says time was synchronized twice during this period.

Is there some DNS cache that is ReadyNAS using? Because i have deleted DNS server cache and log and no more requests appeared in Simple DNS Plus server on Windows.
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 25, 2020
Retired_Member wrote:

Is there some DNS cache that is ReadyNAS using?

I don't believe so. systemd-resolve, ncsd, dnsmasq are not running on my ReadyNAS.