rain, thank you for this information. To my surprise, that beta software update fixed 3 of the problems I was having - including the one that prompted this topic about the DNS settings! The 4th problem turned out to be with the raspberry pi itself ( solution to the raspberry pi problem can be found here ). The new software seems better overall, thanks. One feature that seems to be missing is that I cannot see how to add the “file share” plugin. If you could help with that, I am optimistic that some of these problems will go away. Thanks.