[arm-allstar] OLSR Hostname resolve

[ron at morell.us]

I am having trouble configuring the network on the AllStar RPI under
ARCH linux.  I originally went with DHCP and then not resolving host
names, I went with Static, by running the netsetup.sh script.  DNS works
fine, such as ping yahoo.com and so forth, but the OLSR host names are
not resolving. The network in use is the HSMM-MESH network.
http://hsmm-mesh.org/

The ping attempts look like this:

[root at allstar-ka7u ~]# ping ka7u-1
ping: unknown host ka7u-1
[root at allstar-ka7u ~]# ping ka7u-6
ping: unknown host ka7u-6
[root at allstar-ka7u ~]# ping allstar-ka7u
PING AllStar-KA7U (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.149 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.150 ms

From a computer sharing the same switched LAN the hosts are resolved:

ron at linux-zdyj:~> ping ka7u-1
PING ka7u-1.local.mesh (10.82.214.245) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from KA7U-1.local.mesh (10.82.214.245): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.913 ms
64 bytes from KA7U-1.local.mesh (10.82.214.245): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.687 ms
^C
--- ka7u-1.local.mesh ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.687/0.800/0.913/0.113 ms
ron at linux-zdyj:~> ping ka7u-2
PING ka7u-2.local.mesh (10.130.192.42) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from KA7U-2.local.mesh (10.130.192.42): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63
time=2.19 ms
64 bytes from KA7U-2.local.mesh (10.130.192.42): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63
time=1.82 ms
^C
--- ka7u-2.local.mesh ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.822/2.010/2.199/0.193 ms
ron at linux-zdyj:~> ping allstar-ka7u
PING allstar-ka7u.local.mesh (10.45.111.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from AllStar-KA7U.local.mesh (10.45.111.86): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.343 ms
64 bytes from AllStar-KA7U.local.mesh (10.45.111.86): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.276 ms
^C
PING allstar-ka7u.local.mesh (10.45.111.86) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from AllStar-KA7U.local.mesh (10.45.111.86): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.340 ms
64 bytes from AllStar-KA7U.local.mesh (10.45.111.86): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.310 ms
64 bytes from AllStar-KA7U.local.mesh (10.45.111.86): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
time=0.318 ms
64 bytes from AllStar-KA7U.local.mesh (10.45.111.86): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64
time=0.313 ms
^C
--- allstar-ka7u.local.mesh ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.310/0.320/0.340/0.017 ms
ron at linux-zdyj:~>

I imagine this isn't the right place to pose this plea for assistance,
but I'm not sure where else to go to configure networking in ARCH Linux.
 I have background in Debian and openSUSE, but they do networking
differently.

Any ideas? This problem might be the root cause of my failure to form a
2-way simple bridge between Asterisk servers. I can call extensions on
the AllStar-KA7U server from the KA7U-2 server, but not the other way
around. The problem might not be this resolve failure as it might be the
older Asterisk version in AllStar not navigating the NAT properly, but
one shortcoming at a time...

Ron Morell
KA7U