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Did you updated your controllers with the last firmware and used the start mode of the https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/8bitdo-on-recalbox-(EN) ?
right, i've tried adding dns-namservers 8.8.8.8 into the interfaces file, but again this has no affect. in the end i've switched it back to dhcp and reserved the ip address on my router, not the best solution, but for now it will have to do