PaulinPosset wrote: > 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?
I was said that Minimstreamer uses a persistent HTTP connection, so doesn't do the frequent DNS lookups. But there are apparently other potential robustness problems with that approach as well. I've looked at trying to bypass the LMS DNS lookup, but I haven't found a clean way of doing that. I did try modifying the LMS DNS code to cheat - forcing the time-to-live on DNS lookups to half an hour or so, and never saw any problem with that. That would work for you, as a local mod. It's easy to do on Linux, as the source Perl is there. But on Windows it is complied - you'd have to find out how to recompile... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ utgg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40900 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
