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Scott Miller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Anybody every thought about using something like a DNS server? Have one
system that accepts inquiries about serial numbers and maps them to call
signs. Since APRS acts a lot like a single broadcast domain clients that
overhead a request-reply could just cache the entry, minimizing traffic.
The mappings could be aged out of the cache and/or reverified
periodically. Then you only have one place to update the mapping. I
grant you doing this would require a change to all APRS clients but so
would any major change.
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Yes. For position lookups and such, anyway. I seem to remember I had a
working prototype based on BIND, but I can't remember what I did with
the code. I think it's probably on the old Win2k server in the rack in
the garage... I'll have to see if it still boots.
Or are you talking about on-air lookups?
Scott
N1VG
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I was thinking more of on-air. While the Internet brings a lot of value
it is not always available. Plus as Bob has stated many times APRS is a
local thing.<br>
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