Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First home-made dstar G2 gateway went live today.

2009-07-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:51 AM, dlake02 wrote: > I completely agree that DNS is inappropriate for instantaneous moves. > > 73 David - G4ULF > No offense intended David, but anyone who says this hasn't done it. DNS can EASILY handle virtually instantaneous updates, when configured and used corre

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] dextra_srv ADDON for dstar Gateways updated to v2.45

2009-07-28 Thread ham44865
The dstar ADDON for dstar Gateways/repeaters updated to version 2.45 to fix a small bug when gateways transmit to the Reflectors and to other gateways at the same time due to dstar routing. OPEN SOURCE dstar is at: http://dstardextra.sourceforge.net/ package is dextra_linux_v245.zip 73 Scott

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First home-made dstar G2 gateway went live today.

2009-07-28 Thread John Hays
I agree. On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Nate Duehr wrote: It doesn't have to be that way with a new Gateway... an "IP connected Zone" that acts as one "repeater system" for local linking/regional linking, sure would be a nice feature... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com . John D. Hay

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First home-made dstar G2 gateway went live today.

2009-07-28 Thread Stewart Bryant
dlake02 wrote: > > > The DNS is only to find the reference between the callsign and the IP > address. Entries would only be added once stations are authorised, so > any delay would not affect the live routing. > > IP Routing would take care of station moves, not DNS. > > Every repeater would

[DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First home-made dstar G2 gateway went live today.

2009-07-28 Thread dlake02
The DNS is only to find the reference between the callsign and the IP address. Entries would only be added once stations are authorised, so any delay would not affect the live routing. IP Routing would take care of station moves, not DNS. Every repeater would look-up the callsign-to-IP addres

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First home-made dstar G2 gateway went live today.

2009-07-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:43 PM, John Hays wrote: > > The whole "zone" concept really is dependent on the DOA (marketing > wise) 10 gHz backbone system, using ATM to bring multiple > controllers together to provide the zone and optionally share a > gateway. It doesn't have to be that way with

Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: First home-made dstar G2 gateway went live today.

2009-07-28 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Woodrick, Ed wrote: > Don’t believe that DNS updates are instantaneous. In common > configuration, IP address changes can easily take 6 hours. > > > And if you pull the TTLs down to something short, you start to bang > the heck out of the centralized name servers.