[Xastir] My wish list

Mike L w2swrster at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 22:38:36 EST 2010


Jeremy,

I dont think xastir will allow you to attempt two connections at once, as I
accidentally added a second  interface the other day and xastir flagged it
with an error on the interface control window.

Mike


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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Jeremy McDermond <mcdermj at xenotropic.com>wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
> > Xastir does have code to
> > retry a downed server periodically and will recover, if you have
> > that option set on the interface.  You can also connect to the DNS
> > round-robin server, something like "rotate.aprs.net"???  I don't
> > recall exactly, but when one goes down, Xastir will retry and get to
> > usually a different one that works.
>
> A plea from the Tier2 sysops:  Please do not connect to more than one
> server at once.  It just causes duplicates in the system, and wastes
> bandwidth and cpu on the servers in the network.
>
> Tier2 has a few different round-robins.  It's probably better if you use
> your regional round-robin.  Those are:
>
> noam.aprs2.net -- North America
> euro.aprs2.net -- Europe
> asia.aprs2.net -- Asia
> soam.aprs2.net -- South America
> aunz.aprs2.net -- Australia & New Zealand
>
> We also have a global rotate:  rotate.aprs2.net
>
> > --
> > Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer<http://www.eskimo.com/%7Earcher>
> >
>
>
> --
> Jeremy McDermond (NH6Z) (T2OREGON Sysop and Tier 2 APRS Coordinator)
> Xenotropic Systems
> mcdermj at xenotropic.com
>
>
>
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