This is more a Linux question than a Weewx question, but it is necessary to get Weewx working the way I want it to. This is a networking issue unlike any I've dealt with, so I hope someone with greater knowledge will be willing to share it.
My main router, a Netgear R7000, does not provide the sort of DNS flexibility I need to route the bridge's calls to hubapi.myacurite.com to the computer running Weewx. I could install dd-wrt firmware and get that capability, but that would reduce the router's wireless range, so I'm reluctant to do that. My plan was to add a second ethernet port to the Weewx computer, and "share the internet connection" through that port. I assumed that I could then add this line to the hosts file on that computer: 127.0.0.1 hubapi.myacurite.com and that would solve the problem. But it doesn't seem to work as expected. I can plug a laptop into the shared port and browse the web, But requests from the laptop are not filtered through the hosts file. I've also tried setting up dnsmasq, but with the same result. Both the hosts file and dnsmasq work as they should for requests from a browser on the same computer, but not for the laptop plugged into the shared port. (Just for what it's worth, I've tested this approach on my main desktop, running Mint 17.3 (X86_64). The Weewx computer is running Debian Jessie (32 bit). I realize that a working solution on the Mint desktop may not transfer perfectly to the Debian box, but it should at least get me in the ballpark before I start messing with the Weewx machine.) At this point, I'm completely stymied. I suspect there's something very basic that I'm overlooking. I've been using Linux more than ten years now, but I've learned it piecemeal, just picking up bits of information as needed. That sometimes catches up with me, and my guess is that this is one of those times. If anyone can help me get started on the right path, I'll be grateful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
