BosseJ wrote: > 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).
thanks guys for your valuable, thoughtful ideas! d6jg/BosseJ, let me mull over your suggestions but for now, i 'seem' to have come up with a working solution. 1) plugged in an old linksys router (running dd-wrt) and gave it 192.168.1.1 lan addr. i did this once before but hated the idea of it being ON all the time. 2) specified this to be the gateway/router for eth0. previously this was a serious problem since when hotspot was nearby, it would not be used; i.e., no internet and could not stream spotify. 3) solution for #2 was to specify "interface wlan0 / metric 100" (suggested by epoch1970) in /etc/dhcpcd.conf indicating that we prefer wifi over wired interface. with this, now when hotspot appears, pi has internet access. and the setup is working out for now... but the questions remain: 1) why can't jivelite deal with the simplest setup of all components being in the same box? why not default to localhost when any connection fails? 2) how can i get rid of the linksys router, a 'dummy' gateway? 3) jivelite being UI for the player squeezelite, why is it talking directly to LMS? i imagined the design was jivelite<-->squeezelite<-->lms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pavowren's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=51958 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109789 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
