[nos-bbs] will mirroshades route to a FQDN?

[Barry Siegfried]

[jerome schatten <romers at shaw.ca> wrote]:

> Barry... I've been working at getting my jnos2 stuff working again.
> My 440 radio has quit and thus I have no direct path the SFU gateway
> hamgate.comm.sfu.ca or the smtp mail gateway highgate.comm.sfu.ca  I
> do however have the promise of another 9k6 440 radio.
>
> That said I do have jnos2d working with two vhf ports and tun0 works
> fine.  From jnos I'm able to telnet back to the linux machine that's
> running it, and from the linux machine I'm able to sign into my jnos
> bbs.
>
> While waiting for the radio, I've been experimenting, trying to use
> tun0 to send smtp mail from jnos, but I can't really determine if that
> can actually be done.  Can it?  Seems to me if telnet works through
> tun0, smtp ought to as well.

Generally, if one app will work on path, another one should as well.
:)

> Or maybe a more fundamental question is: can I get tun0 to talk to
> my router's gateway (192.168.0.1) ?  How to do that?  Would slip be
> a better bet?

I'm awfully sorry, Jerome... I am not a Linux person and I have no
personal experience with it whatsoever.  I don't use it and don't
know anything about configuring it.  Hopefully, there is somebody
else here who can answer your questions.  I only took the bandwidth
to reply to you here because you implied that you thought that I could.
Again, please accept my apologies.

> > [jerome schatten <romers at shaw.ca> wrote]:
> >
> > > My path to 44.135.160.113 (the jnos side of the gateway) is on 440, 9k6
> > > RF.  Usually good reliable sigs through a mountain top digital repeater.
> > >
> > > I'm out of town until the weekend, so I'll pick this thread up again
> > > when I return.  At that time, I'll put jnos and the radio link back up
> > > and see if anything has changed.
> >
> > Of course, if that is broken then all bets are off for you.
> >
> > > Were you able to access the gateway from the internet side and got a
> > > return from the 44 side?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > How did you do that?  Were you able to ping the gateway from the 44
> > > side?
> >
> > Yes.  I pinged 44.135.160.113 from an ampr machine over the internet
> > and got a reply.  I was also able to ping the non-ampr side of the
> > gateway from a non-ampr machine and got a reply as well.
> >
> > I was also able to log into the mailbox at both the ampr and non-ampr
> > sides of the gateway.  There did appear to be several AX.25 machines
> > listed heard over several different AX.25 interfaces on the machine
> > so your RF path to the gateway just might be working.
> >
> > > After reading your email, I've googled dgipip and have just started
> > > to read about it.  Looks promising.  If I download the source, is
> > > there a doc file with it; or what should I be reading?
> > >
> > > My jnos is running on an old p-100 32M ram on a 2.2.x kernel
> > > (slackware).  Have other flavours running on other machines.
> > > va7vv.ampr.org is unrouted; ve7ass.ampr.org is routed to the
> > > above mentioned gateway.
> >
> > I wrote the original code for NOS.  It was subsequently ported into
> > Linux by Terry Dawson.  I'm not a Linux person but there are several
> > people I know who have configured and use both the NOS and Linux
> > DGipip clients including myself.  You should be able to find something
> > around to read for whatever platform you want to use.

73, de Barry, K2MF >>
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