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Probably one of the most difficult part parts of transitioning to using your Amahi HDA with the full recommended experience setup is to get all systems to use your HDA for DNS.
A typical symptom is that either accessing the dashboard as
http://hda
or apps that have a web interface (or both) are not reachable and leads to some a site outside your network, 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.
<b>NOTE:</b> .
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The easiest and simplest way to do this is to do these things in the following order:
:3. sometimes the clients machine also cache DNS in browsers. To avoid this, you can hard-refresh the browser, or simply reboot the machine.
If you have any fixed IP devices in your network from your router settings, you can also these may not pick up a DHCP lease. You may set them up in your HDA under [http://hda/tab/network/hosts Setup > Networking > Fixed IPs].
== 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.
You should set them both to the IP of the HDA, so that the HDA is your DNS server for all your devices, which . You will need to still [[RenewIP|renew Client IP Address]] or reboot '''still need to be rebootedall''' your client devices to pick these new settings up.
This way, your clients will still use your router for DHCP, but DNS from your Amahi HDA, hence accessing the apps via the short URLs will work.
The last step is to stop [[Turning_off_DHCP|turn off the DHCP server ]] in your HDA under [http://hda/tab/network/settings Setup > Networking > Settings]. For this menu to show, you have to turn on enable [[Advanced Settings]] under [http://hda/tab/settings under Setup > Settings].
If you have further networking trouble, consult the [[Network Troubleshooting]] page.
