Maintaining a reflector/gateway link over the Pi-Star update process

[G8SEZ]

That repeater is not in the US Trust list (it was previously) so now you have to wait for it to show up in the routing before it can be connected to.

Ah, I see, do you have any idea why this has changed?

That's one for the keeper of GB7IC, if it was in the US Trust list, it would also be in the Pi-Star host files. They may not be using US Trust for callsign routing any more? all questions for the keeper tho.

Also, just ran the mmdvmhost update you mentioned and then needed a reboot before the connection would come up again.

If you just did a normal update in pi-star, just wait longer, the update will stop/start ircDDBGateway, and again, you need that host GB7IC to show up in the routing before you can connect to it, otherwise your gateway has no idea how to find it.

Thanks for the info, I understand now I think, although I'm not exactly sure about the role US Trust plays in DSTAR. GB7IC is looked after by Icom UK so I will email them to ask.

[MW0MWZ]

USTrust is the original callsign routing network, that you can only connect to with a repeater with a full NoV etc. Initially they DID allow hotspots to connect too, but soon stopped that. The rest of us then used openquad instead.

Fast forward a little and ircDDBGateway added support to connect to both at the same time, ahh the utopia...

[M1DNS]

Ircddbgateway pulls the list from ustrust. If the rptr you want to connect with isnt reporting to ustrust. It wont get pulled in.

Meaning, it isnt available to connect with as its ip address hasnt be passed on to ircddbgateway.

You can of course manually edit the ***_host.txt files in pistar (make sure to edit only the hosts.txt files in the /root folder) and the address will be available to ircddbgateway, so it should then connect ok.

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[G8SEZ]

Ircddbgateway pulls the list from ustrust. If the rptr you want to connect with isnt reporting to ustrust. It wont get pulled in.

Meaning, it isnt available to connect with as its ip address hasnt be passed on to ircddbgateway.

You can of course manually edit the ***_host.txt files in pistar (make sure to edit only the hosts.txt files in the /root folder) and the address will be available to ircddbgateway, so it should then connect ok.

Sent via smoke signals using my SM-G935F

Thanks, I will look into doing this, and hope that it does then behave.