Probably one of the most difficult part parts of transitioning to using your Amahi HDA with the recommended setup is to get all systems to use your HDA for DNS.
A typical symptom is that either accessing the dashboard as
or apps that have a web interface (or both) are not reachable and leads to some site on the internet (like amahi.net)
For best results, we recommend that you fully transition your network to using your Amahi server at least for DNS.
The easiest and simplest way to do this is to do these things in the following order:
== An Alternative ==
Alternatively, if you cannot or do not want to turn off your router DHCP, you can still use the DNS server in your HDA.Here are the [http://www.amahi.org/faq/is-dhcp-server-required tradeoffs of not using the fully recommended configuration]
To do this, since the the DNS settings for the DHCP server in your router and fill them (both primary server and secondary) to be the IP of your HDA.