Does Amahi require to be running as a DHCP server?
No. You can optionally turn off your router’s DHCP server for your LAN and let the Amahi HDA give out the DHCP leases for the systems in your network. Some people are understandably hesitant to do this, so we made it optional. Thousands of people use the Amahi HDA as their DHCP and caching DNS server 24×7, so we have solid proof that it’s reliable for continuous use. In fact many people prefer to use it because it’s more reliable than their router. You have several options: • Use your HDA’s DHCP and caching DNS server: This is the recommended configuration to have the all the features of the apps that come with Amahi. • Use only your HDA’s caching DNS server: To do this, change the DNS that your router gives out in the DHCP requests (or change your clients) to your HDA’s IP address. By pointing your router DNS to the IP address of the Amahi HDA you will get a lot of the functionality all of the machines in your network that use it. With this setup, everything will work, except: • Assig
