pavowren wrote: > yes, i was over at the jivelite forum and it seems some folks had a > similar (but not quite mine) situation where they removed the ethernet > connection, began using wifi and then, jivelite would fail to connect to > lms. common solution was re-installation or reset with wifi present. i > was about to follow suit but now believe it would be futile in my case. > as you point out, problem is jivelite's persistence for wifi. even after > hotspot goes away, it retains the wifi address, so of course, it cannot > connect. yes, it should be able to handle the simplest configuration > where all are co-resident in the same machine! > > as for trying out a 'dummy' dns server, i will look into using a local > router if it can be set up as such. > otherwise, do you know of a windows10 software that can do this quick > and dirty? > > this old retired brain is getting a real workout, hopefully keeping the > synapses alive...
Hmm, I always find it hard to follow my advice :-( I am not a windows user (well, some perhaps, but by no means with any administrator skills) so I cannot really recommend a dns caching server for windows with confidence, but I could hint at one that seems to do what's expected for a simple test: http://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=AcrylicHome I guess there's a few hours learning curve even for that, but you seem to have skills so maybe it goes faster for you. Other solutions to (temporarily) add a dns server to your backbone LAN would be to install dnsmasq on some *nix based device. Perhaps your NAS (which I think you mentioned earlier)? That would also open up the possibility to run dnsmasq as a combined dns/dhcp server on your backbone which would ease future expansions, such as adding more devices. You could probably also install dnsmasq on your PI3B+, but that would further complicate things I'm afraid (you would need to force dnsmasq to only listen on etho and not lo or wlan0). 2 Touch, 1 Picoreplayer 4.0.0 on RaspBerry 3B with 7" display LMS latest nightly on Ubuntu 18.04.1 on Intel Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2GB All wired ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BosseJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=67378 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109789 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
