A few weeks ago Siemens released a very much needed upgrade of the IOT2000 platform; the newcomer is called IOT2050 and is a huge step forward compared to the very very underpowered IOT2040. I have had one for a few days laying on my desk but I just found the time to play with it today. Other than the new hardware, the officially supported operating system also changed from Yocto Linux to Debian Buster (kudos for dropping Yocto). …

I have this Arch Linux based ODROID-U3 I use as DLNA server, local web server…etc…and also as local DNS caching server. For some strange reason pdnsd doesn’t seem to start correctly on Arch Linux. [root@server ~]# systemctl status pdnsd -l ● pdnsd.service - proxy name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pdnsd.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2000-01-01 20:02:07 CET; 14 years 7 months ago Process: 182 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pdnsd (code=exited, status=3) Main PID: 182 (code=exited, status=3) Jan 01 20:02:06 server systemd[1]: Starting proxy name server. …