Working around FIOS

[qritz]

So I'm struggling a bit with setting up my HDA server. I have FIOS so I'd prefer to let my existing actiontec router do it's thing in terms of DHCP. I'm trying to piece together how to go about this but most of the other threads on this topic are old and don't quite represent my own problems.

So far I have a successful install and I can see the server running from my amahi control panel. I can't access http://hda/ though and when following the troubleshooter, I get the command not found error for nslookup.

So I think my next step is to disable HDA as a DHCP server but I'm unsure how to do that. In the wiki it describes going to "Advanced Settings, under Setup --> Settings" but I don't really understand how to access those settings if I can't get to http://hda/

Also in another thread I read someone saying it would work to point the router's DNS to the IP of the HDA. If my router wants a primary and secondary DNS, should I use the HDA IP for both or can I have the HDA as primary and the default verizon DNS server as secondary?

I'm probably below average in terms of technical experience so I just need a little clarification

[bigfoot65]

You can access your server via the IP address. Once you do so, you can then disable the DHCP.

If you cannot use the HDA DHCP or DNS, you may have to access everything via FQDN (fully qualified domain name). This would be http://hda.domain.com for example.

[qritz]

Ok well I'm at least partway there. I can access the HDA using it's internal IP as you said, and I now have my router's primary DNS set to my HDA as well which I think is working. I'm at least redirected to the OpenDNS search results as expected when I try to visit webpages that don't exist on my client computer.

I can also see the list of apps to install. Strangely, I've installed Jinzora and Blog but only Jinzora works. http://jinzora.amahi.net redirects to the app as intended but http://blog.amahi.net takes me to the internet of amahi.net. I'm not sure how one could work but not the other. I tried refreshing several times, cleared my cache but it still didn't work.

In the process of trying to fix my nslookup: command not found issue, I did update Fedora. Could that have broken the app?

Edit: Tried restarting my browser and now both app urls redirect to the internet version of amahi.net. As far as I know, I didn't change anything between the time that jinzora was working to the time that it wasn't (except installing the app Blog).

[bigfoot65]

Both primary and secondary DNS must point to the HDA or it will work intermitently. You can also run the network troubleshotoer to help identify what might be the issue.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Networ ... leshooting

Recommend you also take a look at the FAQ on the website.
http://www.amahi.org/faq

If you cannot disable DHCP on your router, one option is to set it to assign only one IP address. Make it static and the same as the IP address on the HDA. Then let the HDA do DHCP for the rest of your network. I have seen this work quite well for many users.