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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Well you were right Mike, about possibly an issue with the router.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>It has a dns relay function that was turned off. I forgot that I had reset my router about a month ago and that function is default off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>My allstar server has a static ip so that’s why it wouldn’t resolve anything past the router itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Almost everything in my house uses the dhcp function so that’s why I didn’t see the issue because dhcp tells the computers everything they need to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Thanks for all of the suggestions. I am now back to my routers ip address in my resolv.conf file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>73 all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Harold<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>K7ILO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Node 27863<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> App_rpt-users <app_rpt-users-bounces@lists.allstarlink.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 12, 2018 10:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> app_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [App_rpt-users] Failed Connections<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Well, I know that some of you that have problems with dns get around them by using google dns BUT...<o:p></o:p></p><p>I think you need to take a good look at your network config in your server and perhaps router. But I think your server will be your likely target. But it could be both. In short I would say verify your router first and scub-out your server 'net config' very well.<o:p></o:p></p><p>If everything is right, it should work right away after a reboot, at least for outbound connects..<o:p></o:p></p><p>But I'm glad to hear it's working for you.<o:p></o:p></p><p>...mike/kb8jnm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/12/2018 12:45 PM, <a href="mailto:k7ilo1@gmail.com">k7ilo1@gmail.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Sorry gang for not getting back sooner but what I did find is that I could not ping anything except for local ip address’s with my router as the dns server</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>So I changed it to Google’s quad 8’s and I was able to ping things on the internet but was still not able to connect to anything.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>But today, I decided just to check because sometimes it takes time for dns records to populate and low-and-behold, I was able to connect to nodes now.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>What was funny is, after the online nodes portal was re-instated, I was showing in the online nodes list but couldn’t go anywhere.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Oh well, its working now.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Thanks all</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Harold</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>K7ILO</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Node: 27863</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> App_rpt-users <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@lists.allstarlink.org"><app_rpt-users-bounces@lists.allstarlink.org></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 7, 2018 10:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.org">app_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [App_rpt-users] Failed Connections</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p>Giving this some more thought... (what was I thinking... or not)<o:p></o:p></p><p>I guess I skipped over the fact you may not have a internet connection at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Probably the first check anyway. Try something from a command line first to check it.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Reboot router/computer and check again / check dns at node.<o:p></o:p></p><p>...mike/kb8jnm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/7/2018 11:27 AM, Mike wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p>start with the DTMF.<o:p></o:p></p><p>listen to the readback of the failed connect. or Watch the console output <o:p></o:p></p><p>but before you make any changes to the system, reboot it.<o:p></o:p></p><p>If nothing has changed with your config than adjusting something is the wrong solution.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The chances of something having gone wrong in memory is a bit higher in a rf environment and a reboot often will flush that out. If it does, you need to look at bad memory and/or rf getting on your wiring.<o:p></o:p></p><p>But other possibilities exist.<o:p></o:p></p><p>...mike/kb8jnm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/6/2018 3:06 PM, <a href="mailto:k7ilo1@gmail.com">k7ilo1@gmail.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Yes its been some time since I’ve monitored the emails because I’ve had way too many to try to read through them but….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a question to probably a common problem and easy fix.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am using the Dial distro of allstar which has been working great up to some point.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So today I decided to fire up the old HT and dial up a node for some traffic to listen to.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Connection failed is what I’m getting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No matter what node I try to dial up I get, Connection failed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All of my config files look ok and I have not done any changes to either my allstar node or my port forwarding on my router.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Where might I start to find and resolve my issue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks gang<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Harold<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>K7ILO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Node 27863<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>App_rpt-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:App_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.org">App_rpt-users@lists.allstarlink.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users">http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe from this list please visit <a href="http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users">http://lists.allstarlink.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users</a> and scroll down to the bottom of the page. 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