Owen Smith wrote: > 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 IPv6 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. Thanks. As a matter of interest how are you doing the caching? Is your Windows LMS server passing all internet requests through your Pi, or using it as a local DNS server?
LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp to MF M1 CLiC (to MF amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Minimserver (server) & upplay (control point) to same renderers & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to Meridian USB Explorer DAC to speakers/phones. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop with firefox/upplay or Android 'phone with Squeeze-Commander/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. Have a Touch with EDO, and a spare, but don't use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103435 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
