[arm-allstar] Update

Wed Apr 25 05:35:45 EST 2018

Andy,

I enabled ping responses for the hamvoip.org server, since this might help 
with diagnostics.

For a test, try to "pre-load" the DNS cache at your end by either pinging 
hamvoip.org or using wget to retrieve the index.html.  Then, immediately 
go a try to perform a pacman update. If pacman still fails, please send 
any contents from the pacman log file: /var/log/pacman.log

The pacman software retrieves the package updates via the hamvoip.org web 
server, just like using wget or looking at the webpage via a browser. If 
pacman still won't work, I'm suspecting some type of filtering on your 
satellite link, even though that would seem unlikely since we're using 
TLS encryption (https) on the web server.

73, David KB4FXC

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, "NV6V via arm-allstar" wrote:

> This confirms I can get to the web site:
> [root at nv6v1 ~]# wget hamvoip.org
> --2018-04-24 10:44:45--  http://hamvoip.org/
> Resolving hamvoip.org (hamvoip.org)... 12.17.29.162
> Connecting to hamvoip.org (hamvoip.org)|12.17.29.162|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: https://hamvoip.org/ [following]
> --2018-04-24 10:44:57--  https://hamvoip.org/
> Connecting to hamvoip.org (hamvoip.org)|12.17.29.162|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
> Saving to: 'index.html'
> 
> index.html                [  <=>                  ]  66.27K   101KB/s    
> in 0.7s
> 
> 2018-04-24 10:45:01 (101 KB/s) - 'index.html' saved [67862]
> 
> ---
> Andy
> 
> On 2018-04-24 09:49, Doug Crompton wrote:
> > Pings are turned off at hamvoip.org [1] for security reasons. It you
> > can access the web page it is working. We will have to figure out why
> > updates are not working for you thru the satellite.
> > 
> > 73 Doug
> > WA3DSP
> > http://www.crompton.com/hamradio [2]
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:51 AM, NV6V <nv6v at calaverasars.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I can certainly access the website from my windows computer on the
> >> same router.  I can't ping hamvoip.org [1] from the pi, but it
> >> resolves to 12.17.29.162.  I can't ping that address from here at
> >> work either.  I just tried pinging hamvoip.org [1] from the pi again
> >> and it took 7 seconds (in my head) to resolve the address.  Still no
> >> returns.
> >> 
> >> ---
> >> Andy
> >> 
> >> On 2018-04-24 08:37, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
> >> Can you access the hamvoip.org [1] website from your end?  I know
> >> others are
> >> using satellites but I have not heard of any update problems. Did it
> >> work
> >> before? Is this the first time you have done an update?
> >> 
> >> *73 Doug*
> >> 
> >> *WA3DSP*
> >> 
> >> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio [2]
> >> <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio [2]>*
> >> 
> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:18 AM, "NV6V via arm-allstar" <
> >> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Greetings List,
> >> 
> >> My node (46739) has never successfully completed the update
> >> script
> >> (option 1).  I ran
> >> /usr/local/hamvoip-pacman/bin/pacman --force --noconfirm --yes -Syu
> >> manually and got this result:
> >> :: Synchronizing package databases...
> >> error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from hamvoip.org [1] :
> >> Resolving
> >> timed out after 10520 milliseconds
> >> error: failed to update core (download library error)
> >> error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from hamvoip.org [1] :
> >> Resolving
> >> timed out after 10519 milliseconds
> >> error: failed to update extra (download library error)
> >> error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from hamvoip.org [1] :
> >> Resolving
> >> timed out after 10520 milliseconds
> >> error: failed to update community (download library error)
> >> error: failed retrieving file 'alarm.db' from hamvoip.org [1] :
> >> Resolving
> >> timed out after 10520 milliseconds
> >> error: failed to update alarm (download library error)
> >> error: failed retrieving file 'aur.db' from hamvoip.org [1] :
> >> Resolving timed
> >> out after 10520 milliseconds
> >> error: failed to update aur (download library error)
> >> error: failed retrieving file 'hamvoip.db' from hamvoip.org [1] :
> >> Resolving
> >> timed out after 10520 milliseconds
> >> error: failed to update hamvoip (download library error)
> >> error: failed to synchronize all databases
> >> 
> >> I can connect to nodes.
> >> What address is this script trying to resolve?
> >> 
> >> Internet access is ViaSat satellite, which of course is very high
> >> latency:
> >> PING yahoo.com [3] (98.137.246.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
> >> 64 bytes from media-router-fp2.prod1.media.vip.gq1.yahoo.com [4]
> >> (98.137.246.8): icm     p_seq=1 ttl=52 time=669 ms
> >> 64 bytes from media-router-fp2.prod1.media.vip.gq1.yahoo.com [4]
> >> (98.137.246.8): icm     p_seq=2 ttl=52 time=655 ms
> >> 
> >> But not 10 seconds worth.  Looks like maybe the host resolution is
> >> what
> >> takes so long initially.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas for me to try?
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Andy Thomas
> >> NV6V
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] http://hamvoip.org
> > [2] http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> > [3] http://yahoo.com
> > [4] http://media-router-fp2.prod1.media.vip.gq1.yahoo.com
> > [5] http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
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