[AppleTV2] HOW TO Stop ATV2 from checking for updates and CRASHING

Anything you can do in the hosts file should have little effect on your Apple TV's ability to connect to your network...

What sort of network do you have, wireless or wired, what sort of network equipment do you have between you modem and Apple TV, routers, switches etc.

Essentially what I'm asking you to do is describe your network.

Also which part of the instructions did you follow, the echo commands? And if you did the echo commands did you use double >'s or single?

I was connected using wireless.

I executed the following commands on a OSX terminal after having ssh'd into apple tv.

echo "127.0.0.1 appldnld.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.0.1 mesu.apple.com" >> /etc/hosts
echo "127.0.0.1 appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net" >> /etc/hosts

Your network problem is elsewhere...

I've tested those 3 commands on 2 of mine and 1 of my brothers ATV 2 probably 20 times, and never did i loose network connectivity, all the entries in the hosts file do is tell the network stack where to redirect certain url's, for example the line with mesu.apple.com redirects mesu.apple.com requests to 127.0.0.1 which is the ip address of localhost, ie the Apple TV itself, they can't harm your ability to connect to a network.

In saying that I have had an ATV loose the ability to connect to a wireless network, which is fine as my ATV's are wired, there was a post somewhere about removing and reinstalling a package to fix the wireless problem, I think you'll need to temporarily connect to a wired network port on your router so you can ssh into the ATV again.

I'll see if I can dig up that post.

edit: check this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=94262

Everything worked fine after I connected directly to ethernet and again went back to wireless. I dont know what really caused the issue. I dont now believe it was the change to /etc/hosts. Thx.

XBMC still crashing. I did as it said on the first page and it's not asking me for updates anymore but i still can't watch anything in XBMC. It just crashes to the desktop. going to try and do the getupdate thing.

that didn't work either. What should i do? This is unusable now! WTF

I was suffering from crashes. I added the entries to the /etc/hosts file and all is well now! Many thanks.

tjanuranus Wrote:that didn't work either. What should i do? This is unusable now! WTF

Could be related to this:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=754...stcount=13

maybe but i'm nut sure what to do except for not using XBMC.. which i really like so that sucks. Does anyone know if this is also happening to plex or if this is just happening to XBMC?

When I try:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade


to I get:


The following packages have been kept back:
com.nito.nitotv
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.