Apple TV Does not Connect after Manual DNS Change

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First time poster. I have read all the FAQs and tried to find an answer for the past few hours. Any help or direction would be immensely appreciated.

 

Apple TV 3, Firmware 5.3

DNS (Automatic) 192.16.1.254; (Manual) 192.168.1.13

Macbook, OS X 10.8.4

Local IP 192.168.1.13

 

Macbook, OS X 10.8.4

Plex Media Server Version 0.9.8.5.165-c301c50

Local IP address PMS 192.168.1.13

Github downloaded - 31 Aug 2013, 19:09 PST

Settings.cfg: 

 

[PlexConnect]
logpath = .
enable_dnsserver = True
ip_webserver = 0.0.0.0
prevent_atv_update = True
enable_plexconnect_autodetect = True
port_pms = 32400
port_webserver = 80
ip_plexconnect = 0.0.0.0
certfile = ./assets/certificates/trailers.pem
ip_dnsmaster = 154.11.128.129
loglevel = Normal
ip_pms = 192.168.0.3
enable_plexgdm = True
port_ssl = 443
 
Issue: At the step where you change the DNS to the Macbook static IP address (or any other manual DNS), my apple tv loses its ability to connect to trailers and netflix. What am I doing wrong where I cannot connect after changing the DNS?
 
PlexConnect.log:
19:35:42 PlexConnect: started: 19:35:42
19:35:42 PlexConnect: IP_self: 192.168.1.13
19:35:42 DNSServer: started: 19:35:42
19:35:42 DNSServer: Failed to create socket on UDP port 53: [Errno 13] Permission denied
19:35:42 PlexConnect: DNSServer not alive. Shutting down.
19:35:42 PlexConnect: Shutting down.
19:35:42 PlexConnect: shutdown
 
 
 
 
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Plexconnect is failing to start due to issues with port 53 (DNS). 19:35:42 DNSServer: Failed to create socket on UDP port 53: [Errno 13] Permission denied


Do you have your own DNS server running?

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Plexconnect is failing to start due to issues with port 53 (DNS). 19:35:42 DNSServer: Failed to create socket on UDP port 53: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Do you have your own DNS server running?

I don't know how I would. This is a fresh install of OS X - would a DNS server be running standard?

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Or a prior instance of PlexConnect is still running. Check Activity Monitor and quit all Python processes. That will fully quit Plexconnect. Restart.

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Or a prior instance of PlexConnect is still running. Check Activity Monitor and quit all Python processes. That will fully quit Plexconnect. Restart.

Tried that as well. Same error message.

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Then you have something else running using the port. In terminal, try:

sudo lsof -i | grep LISTEN

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Sorry about the delay. Got very busy with work and now back at trying to make this work!

launchd       1           root   27u  IPv6 0x7198ab82aadf75e9      0t0    TCP localhost:ipp (LISTEN)
launchd       1           root   28u  IPv4 0x7198ab82aadfd5d1      0t0    TCP localhost:ipp (LISTEN)
mtmfs        39           root    4u  IPv4 0x7198ab82aadfce99      0t0    TCP localhost:49152 (LISTEN)
mtmfs        39           root    6u  IPv4 0x7198ab82aadfc761      0t0    TCP localhost:49153 (LISTEN)
Dropbox     212      ejbigelow   28u  IPv4 0x7198ab82ae0d9c11      0t0    TCP *:17500 (LISTEN)
Dropbox     212      ejbigelow   36u  IPv4 0x7198ab82ae0da349      0t0    TCP localhost:26164 (LISTEN)
Python      637           root    4u  IPv4 0x7198ab82adabe8f1      0t0    TCP *:http (LISTEN)
Python      637           root   11u  IPv4 0x7198ab82abf5f8f1      0t0    TCP *:https (LISTEN)
Plex\x20M  6205      ejbigelow   36u  IPv4 0x7198ab82b713cda1      0t0    TCP *:32400 (LISTEN)
Plex\x20M  6205      ejbigelow   37u  IPv4 0x7198ab82b2931761      0t0    TCP *:32443 (LISTEN)
Plex\x20D  6207      ejbigelow   17u  IPv4 0x7198ab82aadfb1b9      0t0    TCP *:mimer (LISTEN)
Plex\x20D  6207      ejbigelow   29u  IPv4 0x7198ab82b29d7029      0t0    TCP *:32469 (LISTEN)
SRStreame 42608           root   24u  IPv4 0x7198ab82ad8844d9      0t0    TCP *:6783 (LISTEN)
uTorrent  46510      ejbigelow    6u  IPv4 0x7198ab82bea0e8f1      0t0    TCP *:32885 (LISTEN)
uTorrent  46510      ejbigelow    7u  IPv6 0x7198ab82af8fce29      0t0    TCP *:32885 (LISTEN)
uTorrent  46510      ejbigelow    8u  IPv4 0x7198ab82bea1a5d1      0t0    TCP localhost:ndmp (LISTEN)
Python    46761      ejbigelow   12u  IPv4 0x7198ab82beae91b9      0t0    TCP *:51285 (LISTEN)
iTunes    47460      ejbigelow   27u  IPv4 0x7198ab82af0ed029      0t0    TCP *:daap (LISTEN)
iTunes    47460      ejbigelow   28u  IPv6 0x7198ab82af8fca49      0t0    TCP *:daap (LISTEN)
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Your shown settings.cfg does NOT show a port_dnsserver. Why?

Your shown lsof results show three python processes:

http (port 80), https (port 443) and port 51285...

The first two might be PlexConnect, the other one is strange. Do you know, where all those Python processes come from?

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