[arm-allstar] Stopping DNS lookup

[Cole Cunningham]

Doug,

 

I think you confused me, Cole, with Corey.  He helped me with a few
suggestions but he's not the one trying to do something out of the box.

 

Yes, we are trying to make a completely private network of repeaters, links,
and simplex control radios using your BBB edition.  We have no intention of
registering any of the nodes with Allstar and don't want to interact with it
in any way.  We plan to do our own linking system, likely using something
like the Ubiquiti products, so we want to keep the internet type of IP
addresses.

 

So that's why I'm trying to get the Allstar DNS refresh function turned off
and the function removed for updating it.  I had planned on listing all the
nodes in rpt.conf, but in exploring the DNS function am now wondering if I
can get it turned off, would it work to make my own node file in
/var/rpt_extnodes format and let the system use it.  That would be helpful
because we potentially could have over 100 nodes, each on a BBB, and it
would be easier to add, subtract, or change node lookups via one file than
mess with rpt.conf and risk breaking something else.

 

So far in trying to stop the creation of the /tmp/rpt_extnodes file I have
set enable=no in /etc/asterisk/dnsmgr.conf, renamed the rpt_extnodes link in
/var/lib/asterisk, and erased the /tmp/rpt_extnodes file.  But the link and
file keep coming back.  Will you tell me how to stop this?

 

BTW, this is a project several of us are undertaking for the Arizona
Repeater Association based in Phoenix.  You can check us out at
www.w7ara.org.

 

Thanks,

 

Cole, AA7RD

 

 

 

From: arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org
[mailto:arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org] On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 6:31 PM
To: BeagleBone Black ARM Allstar
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Stopping DNS lookup

 

Corey,

 First of all private node number should be less than 2000. Don't try to
reinvent the rules! The node number you have made up is probably an echolink
node number.

If a node is truly private you would NOT advertise it. No statpost
statements in rpt.conf. Comment them out. 

The system will always go to the nodes statement in rpt.conf first BUT you
are confusing it with an invalid node number.

Is this a completely private system meaning you do not want to connect or
register to any valid node? In that case you would have no registered nodes
and therefore the node update would not work and not create the outside node
list. Are you registering a valid node? Do you want to connect to other
registered nodes?  

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio



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From: colecaz at gmail.com
To: arm-allstar at hamvoip.org
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:35:02 -0700
Subject: [arm-allstar] Stopping DNS lookup

I'm working on a network of seven BBB's with private node numbers outside
the normal Allstar range.  They all have fixed IPs in the range 10.1.2.x.
When I try to connect from one to the other on the local network (for
example: Node 244695 with IP 10.1.2.1, connect to Node 214724 with IP
10.1.2.2, using rpt fun 244695 *3214724)  node 244695 seems to go to the
Allstar DNS and finds node 2147 active and connects to it.  

 

If I change node 214724 number to be 214524 it connects as desired, node
244695 to the node now numbered 214524.  Node 2145 is not shown in the
Allstar node list, that's why I chose it for a test.

 

How can I restrict connections to the local network only and to nodes
defined in the [Nodes] stanza?

 

Thanks,

Cole AA7RD


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