silvine Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 I installed Unraid and Unmenu using the helpful configuration guide. I can access Unraid via my brower without issue. I can also access Unmenu but when I click on any of the menu links it takes me to "the DNS lookup failed" page. I understand Unmenu needs an internet connection to work. I am currently accessing Unraid on http://192.168.1.253/ on my mac. I opened terminal and typed "telnet 192.168.1.253". I then entered my password and I typed "ping 8.8.8.8". Terminal reports it is receiving 64 bits. I take it this suggests the problem is not my internet connection?? I have set the gateway and DNS server to the same address I use to access my router. This is 192.168.1.1. I tried changing my Ip address to DHCP. What can I do to fix this? I am really new at UnRaid but I like what I see. Please help. Link to comment
Johnm Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 it does sound like your have conectivity and the problem is dns. I would go back to your telnet. if you can ping 8.8.8.8 (google's dns), I would try to ping "google.com" and see what happens. you should get a reply back. I assume your set your DNS servers in your router. try possibly setting your DNS to 8.8.8.8? thats how i have my setup. my router as primary (that has comcasts dns servers) and google as my secondary. if you know the dns of the package you're trying to download, try to ping it from your mac. maybe the pack is offline. i have seen that in the past. Link to comment
Joe L. Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 have set the network gateway and dns server on your unRAID server. If you log in via telnet on the unRAID server and try net lookup google.com or ping -c 5 google.com what happens? Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 I am having problems with unmenu as well. ive had it installed just fine and was working for a long time...maybe a year or close to without any issues now today out of no where i cant get the unmenu gui to connect. my unraid gui connects just fine i pulled up telnet and when i ran net lookup google.com it said 74.125.224.169 then i ran ping -c google.com and it said ping: bad number of packets to transmit.. any ideas? thanks Link to comment
mrow Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 You need to add the IP address of your server to your hosts file on your Mac. For whatever reason, OS X and iOS don't pick up the local DNS name. So when you're clicking on one of the items in unmenu it's trying to go to http://tower but the OS doesn't know where that is. It has something to do with the way the server broadcasts it's name. Not sure what it is though because it works fine in Finder. Open a terminal window and type "sudo nano /private/etc/hosts" Add your entry, then hit "control + o" then "control + x" And that's control, not command. Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 oops my bad i just focused on the main problem that guy was having im on pc...its working again someone had me run a command and appears to have worked..thanks Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 the correct command is: ping -c 5 google.com You did not include the number of ping attempts (in this example case 5) Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 are you mad at me Joe? ha ha Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 are you mad at me Joe? ha ha no, not at all. I do see I made a typo though in my original example. Sorry. I've fixed it. Joe L. Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 haha ok thanks again for all your great work! Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 cant connect again to unmenu webgui..since im not on mac should i start a new thread? ping -c 5 google.com came back as 0% packet loss Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 cant connect again to unmenu webgui..since im not on mac should i start a new thread? ping -c 5 google.com came back as 0% packet loss That is a different issue. Since you cannot ping the outside world, it might just be that the lan connection is intermittent. Post a syslog. Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 i thought 0% packet loss was a good thing lol syslog attatched Syslog.zip Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 i thought 0% packet loss was a good thing lol syslog attatched Note to self... do not respond to posts before morning coffee has had time to get brain engaged. You are correct. He left off most of the output: ping -c 5 google.com PING google.com (74.125.137.113) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from google.com (74.125.137.113): icmp_req=1 ttl=48 time=26.6 ms 64 bytes from google.com (74.125.137.113): icmp_req=2 ttl=48 time=30.4 ms 64 bytes from google.com (74.125.137.113): icmp_req=3 ttl=48 time=27.6 ms 64 bytes from google.com (74.125.137.113): icmp_req=4 ttl=48 time=26.3 ms 64 bytes from google.com (74.125.137.113): icmp_req=5 ttl=48 time=26.4 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4060ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.315/27.482/30.408/1.535 ms 0% packet loss is a good thing. Your solution is described here... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5568.msg51839#msg51839 Since you are using a MAC, and you do not have a local name server, and, apparently have not entered an entry in your hosts file for your server, you can add two lines in the unenu.conf file to have it send the links as IP addresses instead of machine names. Joe L. Link to comment
carlos28355 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 He left off most of the output: this is true i left it out because i thought 0% packet loss was what i wanted lol Since you are using a MAC, and you do not have a local name server, and, apparently have not entered an entry in your hosts file for your server, you can add two lines in the unenu.conf file to have it send the links as IP addresses instead of machine names. i am not using a MAC thats why i asked if i should start a new thread lol...ill check out that post thanks again! Please do not touch a computer without coffee!!! ha ha jp... Link to comment
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