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[bsk]

One thing I would like to add to this, and noticed that you turned off your server at night.

If you turn off your server, and DHCP on the router is OFF, you will not be able to reach the internet as there is nothing in place to give out a DHCP lease IP address to you. The router is turned off so it says "He has something in place to do this for me now." and since the HDA is off, its no longer giving out an IP (the client still has the one from when it was on, but those expire and need new ones, thats when you loose them). Leaving your HDA on all the time is the best bet with no problems, that is unless you leave DHCP on on your router, but then there is some functionality inside Amahi that you miss.

Looks like the main problem here was turning off the HDA, DNS was working properly, but seems DHCP was not giving out a good lease at the time, or just picked up the old one where it left off and was not connecting to the server itself.

[radioz]

joeaverage:
Thanks. That's the simplest description of how DNS works that I've seen.

I've had a vague understanding of DNS for a long time, but it was helpful to see a simple description of the lookup process. Good work.

radioz

[taa]

I re-setup my Amahi with the domain "home.local" I still get the occational problem when the alternate suffixes get added but I do not get the Open DNS errors.
Joeaverge

I'm probably going to keep my router as the DHCP server and use Amahi for DNS.

Regarding the top level domain .local, after reading this Wikipedia page on Zeroconf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf
and joeaverage's post above, should .local be avoided for one's HDA domain?

[joeaverge]

Regarding the top level domain .local, after reading this Wikipedia page on Zeroconf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf
and joeaverage's post above, should .local be avoided for one's HDA domain?

Honestly?...I do not see where one has to do with the other. Having a top level of .local means the name resolution stops with your network for internal devices. 192.x.x.x cannot be reached anywhere else anyway.

JoeAverge

[taa]

I'm a newb when it comes to local DNS and Zeroconf setup and after reading the Wiki article I was more confused than ever. So, I figured I'd ask.