[OZAPRS] Internet servers

[Geoff]

Nope - You've pretty much summed it all up there Tony :)

First and second.aprs.net.au are both located in Australia, and third is
currently an alias to T2NZAA over in Auckland - it's a spare address we use
occasionally when we are physically moving servers or have a prolonged
outage.

Maybe I could find a use for a pair of GLSB enabled Load Balancers at work
to give a true balancing between the servers - but that really is overkill
:)

Geoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Tony Hunt
> Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2009 12:50 PM
> To: OZ-APRS Mial-list
> Subject: [OZAPRS] Internet servers
> 
> Its certainly true that the servers list in Uiview is out of date. A few
> other client programes are not much better either. Maybee some info on the
> VK APRS web page specific to our prefered servers in Aust/NZ  would help.
> 
> I use one of either of these
> rotate.aprs.net.au:
> first.aprs.net.au
> second.aprs.net.au
> third.aprs.net.au
> 
> Third seems to be in ZL Aukland at the moment
> 
> First and Second are in VK from memory
> 
> Rotate is a great system which will help traffic balance if we all used it
> a
> bit more. It will find a server out of the group which is 1 Running , 2
> not
> too busy .. I would recomend this as an option for Full Time Igates which
> are unattended or have few or no options for redundant feeds if they loose
> the feed. Most decent Igates will attempt a reconnect to the server if its
> lost. If you reconnect to rotate because one of the servers
> (first,second,third) just went down in a heap then it will put you back
> onto
> one of the other available severs
>  nice and neatly. You just dont allways know exactly whcih server you
> landed
> on without doing some looking.
> 
> Then theres the Port numbers to use with the servers.
> See http://australia.aprs2.net:14501/    available Ports Box
> 
> A simple Port 14579 gives you a complete VK/ZL feed without having to
> worry
> about making your own filters.
> 
> Little known presently is the PORTs 10141-10149 from memory.
> These are State Based VK1-VK9 preset filters so that 10145 is a VK5
> centric
> feed.
> I dont think these work on all the Servers as yet though.
> 
> You can customise your login with a Filter using Port 14580
> See here for Filter Options "User defined Filter Port"
> http://www.aprs-is.net/javAPRSSrvr/javaprsfilter.htm
> 
> 
> Maybee Geoff has some further comments on this stuff
> 
> Tony Hunt  VK5AH
> 
> 
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