[arm-allstar] Trying to connect two nodes

[O Z Echo]

Success!!!  After going into my router and making a port rule for 4569 I
was able to connect!!  Thanks for all the help!!  I would never have
figured that one out.

Thanks again!!



Vincent Riley
K4OZEcho


On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I wanted to add one more thing and that is there is a waiting period for
> connections when a node first comes online. This is more apparent in nodes
> that may be going on and off line often.
>
> When you bring a node up the node database is downloaded to your server
> during the boot process but other nodes that you would connect to also must
> have your connection information. The update interval is 10 minutes. That
> is your node refreshes its node database every ten minutes. This is a
> random update and if a node you wanted to connect to happened to do an
> update 30 seconds after you booted and registered then you could connect
> that fast. On the other hand if they had done an update 30 seconds before
> you registered then it would be another 9.5 minutes before they would again
> update and have knowledge of you so you could connect.
>
> So don't be disturbed if you get connection failure messages in the first
> 10 minutes after booting. This is normal.
>
> If on the other hand you try to connect to a valid online node after boot
> and you get no message back about connect or failure then that node is not
> in your database. This is probably due to a failure of your system to
> download the database. Look for the file /tmp/rpt_extnodes after boot. If
> it is not there then your server  failed to download the database. Next
> check if you are actually registered -
>
> asterisk -rvvv
> iax2 show registry
>
> If not then you might have a connection problem. Also check that your node
> password is correct in the registration line in /etc/asterisk/iax.conf
>
> Failures to download the database have occurred with some cell systems
> most notably AT&T so far. We are looking at a work around for this. If you
> experience these kind of problems we would like to know. Let us know your
> hotspot model, and your provider.
>
>
>
> *73 DougWA3DSPhttp://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>
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