Unless you change that in iax.conf and rc.updatnodelist and specify IP addresses rather than url's. I am not advocating doing that just pointing that out. Anyhow enough of the DNS stuff. DNS always works for me and if it is not for you then you either have a lousy provider or you have something not set right.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Finding older version of ACID
From: tim.sawyer@mac.com
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:31:13 -0700
CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
To: doug@crompton.com

With the public Allstar network DNS is needed for status updates and to register. Both process use hostnames.

--
Tim
:wq

On May 5, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:

I guess this is getting way off topic and it also seems there are some strong opinions on dns. First of all Allstar rarely uses dns. The node connections are by IP address. If allstarlink.org, as defined in iax.conf is a problem put in the IP address. I doubt it would change.

99% of Internet users use dhcp and the dns is assigned by the provider. In the case of Comcast or Verizon it goes to their dns and you router defers it there when you point it to the router address. I have used a lot of routers over the years and I never had a problem. There is really no reason to muck with the dns. In most all cases if the dns is not working then your connection is not working either. There are a lot of people out there that would highly benefit by upgrading their Internet routers but thats another story.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

From: petem001@hotmail.com
To: asylthe@kc9ona.com; doug@crompton.com
CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Finding older version of ACID
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 11:03:39 -0400

I always use the DNS provided to my router by my ISP first (could be 2 or 3) THEN I use the google DNS And at the end I use 2 of intenic. (Iknow it is not good practice for use to connect to Internic DNS server. but it is in case all the other fail.. Wich is highly improbable

that way I know that no mather what I will recive an answer to any dns query , it could take time, but I will recieve it..

Here is a good read on how DNS server works..

http://www.linuxsv.org/training/l19_linux_dns.html

From: Andrew Sylthe
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 10:41 AM
To: Doug Crompton
Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Finding older version of ACID

I would be careful with setting your nameserver to the IP address of your router. Not all routers act as a DNS caching server.

Google offers 2 public DNS servers that anyone can use: 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/)

My recommendation would be to use the Google Public DNS servers in your /etc/resolv.conf if you are unsure about your router acting as a DNS caching server.

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
The usual practice is to set your nameserver, /etc/resolv.conf to the lan address of your router which would be the same as your gateway address.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

From: tim.sawyer@mac.com
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 21:02:20 -0700
To: kk6ecm@gmail.com
CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org

Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Finding older version of ACID

Without DNS you can’t reach anything by host name. So you wouldn’t be able to ping google.com, for example. On the other hand you should be able to ping your router, 192.168.1.1 for example, or anything else you know the IP address for.
--
Tim
:wq

On May 4, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Bob <kk6ecm@gmail.com> wrote:

Can the DNS make it appear to not even find the connection, as though the cable is not connected? The response I get (or lack of) looks like it would if the cable were not connected. Looks like I have a bunch of things to try.

Thanks all,
Bob
kk6ecm

From: Tim Sawyer [mailto:tim.sawyer@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 8:25 PM
To: Willem Schreuder
Cc: Bob; app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Finding older version of ACID

I also use ‘setup’ to set a static IP address. But setup hammers /etc/resolv.conf so I just go edit i.e. manually. Should look like so for google dns, use others if you prefer:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
--
Tim
:wq

On May 4, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Willem Schreuder <willem@prinmath.com> wrote:

On Sun, 4 May 2014, Bob wrote:

After the ACID load is complete, using a DHCP router, I run "setup" from the
command prompt, and configure it manually, IP, netmask, gateway, and DSN.
When I do this on a WinXp machine in the TC/IP window, connects directly to
the public (static) IP just fine. When I do it on the Linux box with ACID,
eth0 can't find the connection.

Bob, what you are doing seems correct. I tend to manually edit files, but there is nothing wrong doing it from 'setup'. Bottom line, there is nothing in ACID that prevents this from working. I think you probably just have some field wrong somewhere.

I would approach it bottom up - try pinging the from the AllStar computer to the gateway using IP addresses, then using a symbolic name to test NDS, and work your way up. I bet you will find some subtle misconfiguraton somewhere is causing the problem.

73 Willem

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