Working on a mythtv channel and we ran into a little annoyance last night. The roku can’t seem to find/use my in-house dns server. All addresses are assigned from a linux dhcp server, and all of the other devices get the dns server from it. Its not a big deal, we are just using the ip address, but would like to fix it.
BTW, the myth channel is coming along nicely, hope to have basic functionality working in a week or two.
–Stephen
The Roku will use the DNS Server that your DHCP server tells it to use.
–Kevin
Is there a way to see what its current network settings are, i.e like ifconfing in linux?
It works for me, I’m running DHCP and my own .home domain for the machines on my LAN. DHCP is from a Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato and the DNS is served up using djbdns.
I will pipe up again here, that avahi would be nice 
I would suggest booting a LIVE CD and doing ZERO configuration to it. Open a terminal window and make sure that DNS is working as you expect. Maybe the domain name needs tuned?
There is an “option ndots:2” (approximately) that we had to add to our resolv.conf for a while because the system resolver would not automatically append the “domainname” if there was more than one DOT in the name. We have a corporation that has names like host.sub.domain.com, and people tend to like to use “host.sub” and assume the “domain.com” will automatically append like it does in Solaris. I don’t know if this is the case for your configuration, but I suggest putting:
http://HOSTNAME.home./path/to/file.mp4
(i.e. the trailing dot tells the resolver that its a FQDN)
Tommy
