[nos-bbs] Where to find encap.txt

[Lee D Bengston]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM jerome schatten <romers at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Many long year ago, around the year of the flood, one used to be able to
> go to the portal and download the latest encap.txt file, or sign up to have
> it e-mailed. Grousing around the new ‘improved' portal, that feature seems
> to no longer be available. Is this the case, or is it just that I can’t
> find it?  There are folks that need that service as they can’t receive the
> rip broadcasts.
>
> I’m not bothered by this as I receive the broadcasts just fine, but one of
> my forwarding partners is not able to receive the broadcasts and that makes
> his jnos system somewhat useless these days.
>
> It appears to me that the rip stuff is not a file on my system, but rather
> resident in memory after receiving the broadcasts. Can I force the dumping
> of the rip info on my system to a file that can be sourced by my
> unfortunate friend?
>
> He has had this problem across the years, and many different modems, and
> even across different isp’s.
>
> We could use some advice….
>

Hi Jerome,

As far as I know, the only way to download the routes now is to get them in
json format using the API.

https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/API

There is also this script posted, which appears to convert the json file to
the original encap.txt format.
https://wiki.ampr.org/wiki/Encap.txt/get-encap

73,
Lee K5DAT
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