Drewy's Azureus Mod. Error: "unknownhostexception"

[Gesus]

Hi there,

Just having a bit of a problem with the Azureus mod for the N5200. This is my setup:

- N5200Pro w/ firmware 2.00.10
- 5x Seagate NCQ 1TB running in Raid5
- Netcomm NB5Plus4W Router
- Logging in w/ AzSMRC locally on Windows Vista
- Logging in w/ Web UI remotely on Windows XP

I'm definitely an amateur N5200 user, but I have pretty intermediate computing and networking knowledge. I'm pretty confident I have the correct ports forwarded and they are working correctly. I have one port forwarded for the Azureus mod, one for the Web UI and one for the AzSMRC client.

The error I am getting, both from private and public trackers is: unknownhostexception (unknown host exception).

I've Googled around but can't seem to work out why I am getting this problem. I am able to add torrents to the Azureus mod both via the Web UI and also the AzSMRC client, they allocate the space fine, check the existing downloaded data fine, but at the point where they normally begin downloading I get this error for each torrent.

Any help on fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated. If I come across a solution in the meantime, i will post it here for future users with a similar problem.

Cheers.

[Gesus]

Aug 9, 2008 1:10:08 GMT 7 drewy said:

ok i do want to get to the bottom of this. There have been some users report that they've fixed the problem by configuring the nas to use dhcp.
I'm not disbuting that this may have fixed their issues, I just don't understand why.

Why are you having to map open ports "one for webui, one for azsmrc" to the nas? are you connecting to azureus from outside the local network?

Just trying to understand so that I have a chance of replicating the problem....

Yep - spot on. I've forwarded the AzSMRC and WebUI ports because I want to be able to use your mod to login to Azureus on the NAS remotely. I am getting that unknownhostexception error whether or not I try to load torrents locally or remotely though.

To give you a bit of an idea of the network setup. I have an NB5Plus4W router connected to the WAN port of the NAS. When I'm connecting to the NAS locally, it's wirelessly via the router. The NAS has a static IP on the network, 192.168.1.2.

The ports I mentioned earlier are all forwarded to it, and I've never had any problem using torrents / forwarding ports to other machines on the network with that router. I've also setup an FTP server on the NAS (the built-in one) and I've been able to forward ports to the NAS for that and it has worked fine.

Thanks again Drewy.

[drewy]

while you have the AzSMRC running on the local network, what nas ip address are you using to connect to ? 192.168.1.2 ?

Is there anything connected to the LAN port on the nas? if so what settings is it using?

What WAN settings do you have configured on the NAS (gateway, dns etc)?

I take it your router is 192.168.2.1 and your local clients are using dhcp?

[Gesus]

Yep that's right.

Router: 192.168.1.1
NAS: 192.168.1.2

I haven't yet been able to setup the router capabilities of the Thecus yet so I don't use the LAN ports on the back of it at all.

These are the settings:

[drewy]

try adding 192.168.1.1 as a DNS server to the WAN settings.

I'm assuming your router is doing dns forwarding, if not enter your isp's dns servers.

try that.

[Gesus]

THANKS MATE!

I added my router's IP as the DNS server and it's working great.

I've just got three more questions now that it's all working:

1. How can I update to Vuze 3.1.1.0 or downgrade to Azureus 2.5.0.4. One of the best private trackers I use (PM me for the name) bans any other versions =((.

2. For some reason my Web UI isn't loading anymore. It sort of loads, like flashes up the name in the titlebar of my browser but then comes up page not found. I'll test it remotely tomorrow, I've obviously messed something up here.

3. I started a thread on this earlier, but just wanted to know about setting up mutliple user accounts.

Those last two questions aren't a big deal - and I'm just totally stocked about this mod as it is. Thanks again Drewy. Big time. If I can help out with your hosting needs at all let me know.

Cheers.

[drewy]

great, pleased to hear it fixed the issue.

[drewy]

Aug 11, 2008 18:46:44 GMT 7 Gesus said:

1. How can I update to Vuze 3.1.1.0 or downgrade to Azureus 2.5.0.4. One of the best private trackers I use (PM me for the name) bans any other versions =((.

2. For some reason my Web UI isn't loading anymore. It sort of loads, like flashes up the name in the titlebar of my browser but then comes up page not found. I'll test it remotely tomorrow, I've obviously messed something up here.

3. I started a thread on this earlier, but just wanted to know about setting up mutliple user accounts.

Those last two questions aren't a big deal - and I'm just totally stocked about this mod as it is. Thanks again Drewy. Big time. If I can help out with your hosting needs at all let me know.

Cheers.

1 auto update does work. Check out the main azureus topic for the procedure. Basically you sent the update (as found by azsmrc) to the server(thecus) it downloads and then starts the upgrade process (this can take a while)....sometime later you disconnect azsmrc and restart the azur mod on re-connection the new version should show up.

2 no idea really, it's always worked for me when I've tried it but doo confess to hardly ever using the html interface.

3 multiple accounts....I've have to look at this. It's seems a possiblilty, but I'm not absolutely sure.

[gdawg]

When I try to download from AntiLeechTrackers I always get the "Connection Error (UnknownHostException: "tracker sites name)" message

What do I do wrong?