[App_rpt-users] Echolink Connection Issue

[Ken]

That would be a good guess.

Actually - looking at my systems, the actual *use* of this variable is only
a fairly recent development.

If your ACID version is a bit old, it does not matter what you set it to ...
I am guessing yours is fairly new, so it will just hang up on you if you try
to link to a conference and this is set to "no".

73

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Roberts [mailto:n9gmr at me.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 5:38 PM
> To: Ken
> Cc: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Echolink Connection Issue
> 
> I do have that. Should I change it to "yes?"
> 
> Matt Roberts
> Phone: 386-679-1986
> n9gmr at me.com
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Ken <ke2n at cs.com> wrote:
> 
> > Check your echolink.conf file and see if you have:
> >
> > confmode=no
> >
> > That is telling Asterisk that connections to conferences is prohibited.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: app_rpt-users-bounces at ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-
> >> bounces at ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Matt Roberts
> >> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:06 AM
> >> To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
> >> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Echolink Connection Issue
> >>
> >> I am attempting to connect to Echolink 494492. I enter the command on
> >> my repeater, "*33494492." This is the *handiham* conference. The
> >> repeater acknowledges the command, and then I get a connection
> >> refused message from my repeater. The owner of the conference has
> >> tried to connect to my system, and could not do so either. Any other
> >> Echolink node I have ever connected to, or has connected to me has been
> able to do so.
> >> My repeater is set as a DMZ host on my router. With this
> >> configuration, no port forwarding should be required. I don't know if
> >> there is a log file
> > which
> >> will allow me to diagnose this problem. I found one, but it was over
> >> 100MB
> > in
> >> size. That file appeared to not have any useful information in it. I
> >> also
> > tried
> >> from the CLI, and that didn't give me any information either.
> >> Has anyone else experienced this kind of problem? The owner of the
> >> conference is saying it's an issue with Allstar, but I don't think
> >> so! If
> > it was an
> >> Allstar issue, I wouldn't be able to connect to Echolink nodes at all.
> >>
> >> Matt Roberts
> >> Phone: 386-679-1986
> >> n9gmr at me.com
> >>
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