Well the modification to the /etc/hosts file on my DD-WRT router at home worked, just add this line to your Hosts file:
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69.164.195.211 barnesandnoble.com
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You'll have to then turn on your nook's WiFi, give it some time to associate. Then browse a few books in their store or go to the Daily and make sure that the Nook is using WiFi preferentially over the 3G connection (ie. there is the Wireless strength curved/pie shaped icon being displayed, not the vertical bar graph icon for 3G). Once it's no longer using 3G for data, then hold the power button down until the nook powers down. The re-start it again. It should stay in WiFi mode for Data access and when you refresh the Daily section, you should see nookDevs.com's test feed.
It's too bad that you have to power cycle/reboot the nook to get this to work the first time (seems to cache barnesandnoble.com's real IP address once it accesses over 3G or WiFi until a reboot). But it does work.
BTW, you may have to remove the /etc/hosts entry once you're done playing with this as it may mess up other functions at barnesandnoble.com (including shopping for books via a browser, etc).
This looks really promising.
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Originally Posted by stangri
that's my question exactly, since we can mod hosts files right on the router there's no need for external DNS plus we should be able to publish anything to nook from our computers or NAS drives. If only we were told how to publish to nook, clearly this can be sniffed from the nookdevs responses, but I lack the inspiration to do again what's been done once already.
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I've been talking with robbiet480 and what they have running is apparently pretty simple right now. Don't have all the details but I think their "Daily" server upon receiving a request is getting fresh "Daily" data from the official dev.barnesandnoble.com server and then tacking on their own feed/XML data and passing it back to your nook.
So to replicate what they're doing on your own network, I'm guessing you'd have to:
1) modify the /etc/hosts file as discussed but using an IP pointing to your own computer that'll be running your "Daily" server
2) have some sort of script running on one of your server that grabs fresh XML data from the official BN "Daily" feed (using the hardcoded IP 208.67.219.132) when a request comes in from your nook
3) then add on your custom content to this XML stream and feed it out to your nook
The clumsy bit is that you'll likely have to turn on WiFi and power cycle your nook each time you come home and want to hook up to your own Daily server (to flush any cached IP addresses for BN's official servers that your nook might have gotten on the road). And you'd have to go into Airplane Mode before leaving the house to keep your custom Daily content from being overwritten by the official BN content should the nook refresh for content on its own.
What'd be much nicer would be if someone could figure how to load into the My Documents or the nook's purchased books libraries directory directly as that'd be permanent. Not sure if the Nook is set up to do that.
Dave