[HELP] Problems in building up a cache sever

[hj_CN]

Thanks for coming to see my problem.

And here is it. I followed the tutorial , as is shown below, exactly the same. However, i've tried several times, it just didn't work. And I've tried both on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. 

 Here is what i've found now. 

1) The sever itself can access the internet.

 

2) The clients, both my laptop and my surface, can't access the internet with ONLY the IP of my steamcache-dns container as the "Preferred DNS server" (The "Alternative DNS server" is blank now). But it can access the router under this circumstances. 

 

3) Only I set the "Alternative DNS servers" with another IP address can I get the access to the internet. And when I download games from steam, nload shows that nothing is going through the server. 

 

4) I can get the response from my serve when I ping the IPs. 

 

I suspect that it's probably the server does not serves as a DNS server at all. But I don't know why and how I can solve the problem. Because I'm sure that I follow the every step exactly the same. I hope someone can help me solve the problem. 

 

 

[Catsrules]

Yep sounds like DNS isn't working at all.

 

What are all of the ip address your using?

 

main server IP

your clients ips

steamcache-dns server ip.

etc..

 

Can you ping all server IPs from your clients? 

[AbsoluteFool]

10 hours ago, hj_CN said:

Thanks for coming to see my problem.

And here is it. I followed the tutorial , as is shown below, exactly the same. However, i've tried several times, it just didn't work. And I've tried both on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. 

 Here is what i've found now. 

1) The sever itself can access the internet.

 

2) The clients, both my laptop and my surface, can't access the internet with ONLY the IP of my steamcache-dns container as the "Preferred DNS server" (The "Alternative DNS server" is blank now). But it can access the router under this circumstances. 

 

3) Only I set the "Alternative DNS servers" with another IP address can I get the access to the internet. And when I download games from steam, nload shows that nothing is going through the server. 

 

4) I can get the response from my serve when I ping the IPs. 

 

I suspect that it's probably the server does not serves as a DNS server at all. But I don't know why and how I can solve the problem. Because I'm sure that I follow the every step exactly the same. I hope someone can help me solve the problem. 

 

 

Your computer need access to the internet. The cache server don't have anything to serve you at this time. The cache server will download the information when you do it aswell.

 

Might i recomend following a guide from another side? Preferably from here https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/building-a-local-steam-caching-server-to-ease-the-bandwidth-blues/