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Chromecast on School Network

  • January 06, 2015 11:28 AM
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    Message # 3181997
    Marc Caouette

    I've been having trouble getting a Chromecast to connect to the Internet from within our school network.  The problem seems to be that the Chromecast is hard set to connect to Google's own DNS servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.  I assume that our firewall may be blocking the connections.

    Having heard that others are using Chromecasts in their schools, has anyone seen a similar issue, and how did you get around it?


    thanks

    Marc
  • January 06, 2015 11:39 AM
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    Reply # 3182001 on 3181997
    Marc Caouette

    Well I just answered my own question....

    I just added the statement to allow outgoing access to Google's server and the Chromecast came to life!


    I'll leave this posted to help any others.


    Marc
  • January 06, 2015 2:43 PM
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    Reply # 3182137 on 3181997
    Dave Laroche

    Thanks, Mark...  this will be helpful since I would like to use one of these in my school environment.  Just in case I run into the same issue(s).

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