Set up your DNS server

Table of Contents

Wild Cloud Setup - This article is part of a series.

Part 1: 🌩️ Get started

Part 2: Hardware

Part 3: Get a Domain Name

Part 4: Operator machine

Part 5: This Article

Part 6: Set up your wild cloud

Part 7: Use your wild cloud

This section is mandatory and, we admit, not accessible to non-technical audience. We have plans for this before releasing to early-adopters. These instructions are a placeholder suitable for Wild Cloud devs and will be replaced before the Early-Adopter release.

Get your hardware
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Make sure you have a dedicated machine for your DNS server. It can be tiny, like an Orange Pi Zero.

Install your OS
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Install another Debian-based Linux machine on your LAN (e.g. Debian or Ubuntu).
Make sure you can SSH in from your operator machine.
Record it’s IP address.

Install the DNS software
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Run wild-dnsmasq-install from your Wild Cloud Home on your operator machine.

Update your LAN router
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Log in to your LAN router’s web interface.
Find the DHCP settings and reserve the IP address you recorded for your DNS server.
Set the DNS server for your LAN to the IP address of your DNS server.