Specify IP for DNS Server

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Hi there!

 

First of all, huge props for this most awesome bit of software!

 

I am running PlexConnect on an Ubuntu Linux server, which also hosts my DHCP and DNS services for the home network.

 

I have bind9 working for my purposes, but I'm not much of a guru with it, and I couldn't get it to do what's needed without breaking all *.apple.com requests.

 

So I attempted to get the PlexConnect DNS component working alongside bind9, which turned out to be quite simple.

 

First, I added a second IP address in /etc/networking/interfaces, which would be for PlexConnect's DNS only.

 

Next, I edited named.conf.options, to force bind9 to only listen on the original IP and 127.0.0.1.

 

Finally, I edited DNSServer.py to force that script to only listen on the new IP:

 

 

Changed line 313:
 
DNS.bind(('',53))
 
to
 
DNS.bind(('192.168.15.243',53))

 

Clearly, hardcoding the IP address is not ideal, it should be a variable of some sort, but this was my quick-and-dirty solution to get it up and running.

 

I don't think there needs to be a change to PlexConnect, I think I have a fairly edge case here. Just thought I'd share my solution. :)

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Glad you like it.

If you check out the install guides on the wiki and go to the linked Linux one you will see you do not have to hack the code to achieve this (we added some advanced options for users such as you in settings.cfg) ;)