There are many reasons that you may want to set a static IP on your Xbox 360 but the biggest reason would probably be the fact that you are having trouble playing online multiplayer games. I will be writing another article soon about how to resolve the issue of NAT showing as Moderate on your Xbox 360. This article is specifically related to assigning a static IP on your home network to your Xbox 360. Once you complete the below steps you will always know the address of your Xbox 360 on your local network which will make things such as port forwarding easier in the future. Follow the steps below to assign a static IP address to your Xbox 360.

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If you need to add a local DNS entry to your Windows Vista PC you will first need to know the location of the “hosts” file which is where you should add the local entries. It might be necessary to add local entries if you want to direct traffic from the Vista PC to a device on your local network by name instead of IP address.

Windows Vista hosts File Location: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

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I was attempting to clone a github repo on a Slicehost account and received the error below. Its possible that github.com recently updated DNS so if this happens to you then you can use the temporary fix I located on github’s twitter account.

Error:fatal: Unable to look up github.com (port 9418) (Name or service not known)

This error was caused by attempting to clone edavis10’s redmine repo using the command below.

git clone git://github.com/edavis10/redmine.git

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Use the below syntax from the Terminal window on a Macintosh computer running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to clear the DNS cache for the computer.

dscacheutil -flushcache

You might need to flush the DNS cache if you know a DNS change has been made recently but your Mac is not showing the change. OS X does a good job of DNS caching but it may take longer than you want to wait to update a changed DNS setting and running the above command will solve your issue without having to reboot.

It is easy to add static DNS entries to the dd-wrt GUI interface. Follow the below simple steps and then reboot your router. In the below directions the dd-wrt version is v24-sp2.

1. Login: First login to your wired or wireless router that is running dd-wrt software.
2. Open Services: Click the “Services” tab which will default to the “Services” sub tab as well.

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