There is not a web GUI way to configure that, but when I asked them over the phone, they just asked me to give them the details, and the task got accomplished within less than 2 hours.
Now I am able to reach my home network with a really nice FQDN.
Next steps:
The gcc supplied by ipkg (for this model) is an ancient 3.4.6, apparently so outdated, that you cannot configure and compile “current” sources, at least neither a current rsync nor a current gcc.
I guess I should go for Synology’s own toolchain for the DS213+. Where do they supply that? At www.synology.com > Support > Developers > “Request GPL Source” they point you to sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/. Looks like EnvDeploy inside that tarball is the starting point.
To be continued …
I was trying to find an occurrence of /lib/cpp in a log file, and I wanted to avoid using ‘/’ in a regexp, so I tried ‘lib.’ instead. But that didn’t match the obvious occurrence. I executed a “:set magic”; the command got accepted, but that still didn’t change its behaviour. Installed VIM, tried the same, and everything worked as expected. Still a little frustrating. It looked like I am loosing even my basic VI competence.
Expecting Sven G.’s “like it” on FB…
Maybe it has valuable hints for more difficult compilation issues.
Recently I found IPKG actually got abandoned, and the IPKG Perl on one of my Synology DiskStations wasn’t really functional at all (some broken dependency on a library to be loaded dynamically).
That really frustrated me for a short period. Now I installed the IPKG optware-devel (compilation toolchain) and esp. gcc. Downloaded rsync sources, proceeded “as usually” with GNU sources, and it simply works. That’s phantastic. I have really been worried for quite a while with that restricted Synology provided rsync, and the IPKG rsync didn’t really comfort me there, so having “my own” rsync is really a nice thing. Next thing will be compiling my own Perl; and I will even be able to install CPAN modules with C sources, as I even have a C compiler.
Actually I should consider bootstrapping gcc, the GNU C compiler, because gcc-4.2.3 is a little outdated. gcc for my other DiskStation is even older, it’s a gcc-3.x. But than those gcc-s create code, that runs on these DiskStations, and not really bad.
Looks like my Synology DiskStations even work well as development systems.