TheShanMan 34 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I think what I'm seeing is when my phone switches between wifi and 4G, the MB app gets messed up. I have a server name that works from the internet and works on my wifi, where on wifi my dns resolves it as a local IP. So I'm guessing the app doesn't handle the fact that sometimes "foo.bar.com" resolves to 1.2.3.4 and sometimes it resolves to 192.168.1.1 (obviously those are just examples). The symptoms are that the content area of the screen will be blank and sometimes I can get to the settings page where I can then pick my connection again and sometimes I actually have to kill the app and restart it. Does this give enough information to know what's up? If not, I'd be happy to do whatever you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 After I get Chromecast out the door I'll be looking at connectivity in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I think what I'm seeing is when my phone switches between wifi and 4G, the MB app gets messed up. I have a server name that works from the internet and works on my wifi, where on wifi my dns resolves it as a local IP. So I'm guessing the app doesn't handle the fact that sometimes "foo.bar.com" resolves to 1.2.3.4 and sometimes it resolves to 192.168.1.1 (obviously those are just examples). The symptoms are that the content area of the screen will be blank and sometimes I can get to the settings page where I can then pick my connection again and sometimes I actually have to kill the app and restart it. Does this give enough information to know what's up? If not, I'd be happy to do whatever you need. How do you do this?.... I have a dyn DNS host address set up but it's does not resolve to a local IP within my home LAN so all my phone apps I need to have a wan setting and LAN setting and manually switch between them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShanMan 34 Posted March 2, 2014 Author Share Posted March 2, 2014 I have an internal dns server so I entered an alias for my external name, mapped to the internal address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRA 39 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 (edited) Why don't you just use your external IP all the time ? Your router should handle that request either way, it's not like traffic will go out to the internet and back when you are home. Edited March 4, 2014 by KRA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vidman 589 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Why don't you just use your external IP all the time ? Your router should handle that request either way, it's not like traffic will go out to the internet and back when you are home.Is this what you do? It does not work for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRA 39 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Vidman, I don't use the android app, but this is how I do it for all my other services, including MB3 web gui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbit1543 105 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Not all routers will allow NAT Hairpin. If your router supports this then you can use your external ddns name for this. Personally my router does support this and i use my ddns name for all android apps that require internal and external communications. While i dont do a ton of MB3 watching on my android it does work with that quite well, i've never run into the issues that you describe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShanMan 34 Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Bumping just in case this has fallen off the radar. I'm not going to die or anything, but I do get tired of dealing with the hassle of all the app crashes, so I'm anxiously awaiting better reliability with regard to connectivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikuf 663 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 It hasn't fallen off the radar bumping is not required it is just not as simple as you would think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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