After adding my Pioreactor to the university IoT network, I’m running into an issue with networking. If I navigate to the IP address, while on the University network, I can access the UI without issue. However navigating to pioreactor.local, name.local, or pi-name.university.edu, all result in connection errors. Any thoughts?
IP address is what I think you mean? Yes, this make sense. The *.local resolution (i.e. going from name.local to a valid IP address) uses a process called mDNS. Almost all universities disable mDNS since it results in a lot of chatter over their networks between thousands of devices. You can either keep using the IP address, or create an alias on your computer to point pioreactor.local, name.local, or pi-name.university.edu to the IP address.
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