[mythtv-users] "unknown socket" error with Xbox frontend
Tom E. Craddock Jr.
sigtom at sigtom.com
Thu Apr 14 19:06:51 UTC 2005
Terry Yee wrote:
> yeah its a mystery to me how the xbox is able to resolve hostnames
> into ip addresses.
DNS. You give the hostname of the backend in the setup for xbmcmythtv
and it resolves that to an IP using DNS (i.e the router/firewall on your
LAN should resolve the Xbox Hostname to the IP it gave it earlier when
the XBox turned on and did a dhcp request)
> That's y i think its just best to go with static ip's and put the actual
> ip address in rather than a host name. Your on a local network anyways aren't you?
Static IPs are good, but typing in Xbox instead of 192.168.1.100 is
soooooooooooo much easier; heck, even mapping the MAC of the XBox to a
DHCP IP addy and letting it always get the same dynamic IP addy works
nice as well. Also works for the webserver in xbmc, just surf to
http://xbox instead of http://192.168.1.100.
Tom
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