utgg wrote: > You've got a DNS server problem. That's what the following lines are > saying: > > Code: -------------------- > > > [15-04-28 03:22:10.2018] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (59) Lookup failed for as-hls-uk-live.edgesuite.net > [15-04-28 03:22:10.2024] Plugins::BBCiPlayer::HLS::__ANON__ (91) error fetching http://as-hls-uk-live.edgesuite.net/pool_7/live/bbc_radio_two/bbc_radio_two.isml/bbc_radio_two-audio%3d320000.m3u8?dvr_window_length=24 > [15-04-28 03:22:32.5566] Slim::Networking::Async::DNS::__ANON__ (59) Lookup failed for polling.bbc.co.uk > -------------------- > > > > There are two successive DNS lookups that fail there - > as-hls-uk-live.edgesuite.net for the HLS stream and 22 seconds later > from polling.bbc.co.uk for my OnAir patch. > > I'm far from an expert on these matters, but from what has been said > before, particularly by the chap on the BBC blog (mentioned quite a > way back in this thread), this could be problem with either the DNS > server you are using, or an unreliable network losing the requests > (which use UDP with no retries). > > If it is the latter, it could be that LMS itself is the problem - > usually DNS requests should be retried by whatever is doing the DNS > lookup locally, if there is no response within a certain time. If the > OS (windows/linux) was doing the lookup, it should be retrying. But it > looks like LMS does the DNS lookups directly - possibly without any > retry mechanism. > > But given that you have two successive DNS failures, I'd guess that > this might a problem with the server. Have you tried a different DNS > server yet?
Thanks for looking. The OS is Win 7 and I use BT Infinity broadband through an Asus RT-N66U router. I've tried changing DNS servers from the default BT, to Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to see if that made a difference, and after your suggestion a few weeks ago ran a Namebench test which suggested 2 different servers, one of which was a different BT DNS server to the default one. I've also run ipconfig and flushed the DNS cache, ran for a while with the local cache disabled, yet the problem persists. At least it appears to be a network issue rather than a BBC/ plugin problem though I should add that I've run tests streaming Radio 2 through Minimstreamer which didn't drop out at all. It might have been a fluke but I stopped the test after 30 hours, and through the same network and HTPC that LMS uses. You mention that it looks like LMS is doing the DNS lookup so is there a way to disable this and rely on the OS to do this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PaulinPosset's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63060 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
