PasTim wrote: > Much of this is over my head. First, I have no idea at all how, or > whether, I can get IPv6 addresses to work with my ISP and router. > Secondly every ubuntu system I've tried to set up seems to have dnsmasq > errors at startup, and I don't understand it all. So all I did was to > set my router/gateway to have one Google and one ISP DNS address. > > If there are serious and general steps that many could take to improve > things, this topic might be better of with a new thread. > > I thought you liked to keep things 'simple'? :)
My ISP's DNS issue were bad enough I couldn't keep things simple. IPv6 is only an option if your ISP provides it, mine (Andrews and Arnold) does. It's probably not a big part of the problem, but seemed worth doing since all I had to do was put in Google DNS's IP6 addresses rather than IPv4. dnsmasq never gave me errors on startup on Raspbian, but it's not a standard package. I had to install it. The biggest issue as I see it is the rubbish DNS caching in Windows which ignores all expiry times and just keeps using the cached results. If addresses change then this goes wrong. Having turned off DNS cachng in Windows it then looks all names up over broadband every time, and my broadband is too slow for that to be acceptable. So I needed a computer to do the caching instead of Windows, and I settled on dnsmasq on the Pi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Owen Smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42371 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103435 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
