Back in the 1970’s there was no standard method for networks to communicate and it took the work of two men, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn to come up with the well known internet protocol which led to the development of many technologies used today such as DNS. A system such as DNS associates and keeps a record of domain names such as billysoftacademy.com and their corresponding numerical IP addresses. MIKROTIK routers ship with a built in DNS server and can perform the functions that a standard DNS server is expected to. This tutorial provides a guide on how to use a MIKROTIK router as a DNS server on a LAN network. You will also learn how to add static DNS records and also protect the DNS server from DDOS attacks.