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I am going through a bit of a headache trying to find this information. I have a lot of people interested in a private simplex node/repeater network using Asterisk/app_rpt, the same software AllStarLink uses. Instead of using dynamic DNS or OpenVPN, I would like to use their technique on node lookup, that is, DNS. They state in their wiki that they utilize a PowerDNS server with MySQL. How would I go about doing this? I hope I am asking in the right place. I know how it works, I just don't know how to implement it on my system. I would preferably want to know how HamVoIP does it as well. The way I am doing it now is everybody hears everybody by everyone connecting to a central hub. I don't want that type of system. Thanks!

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  • Hello and welcome to ham.stackexchange.com! – rclocher3 Dec 09 '20 at 16:39
  • Interesting! Sounds like you might need to write some code. We have some very bright people here who are experts in many subjects, and I hope that someone here has the expertise to help. – rclocher3 Dec 09 '20 at 16:57
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    Hi! Thanks for the welcoming! Yeah, I wouldn't mind writing some code, that's how I think they do it, is using a combination of bash scripts on the user nodes and php/perl scripts on the servers. – byaeger Dec 09 '20 at 17:21
  • Ooh, in your shoes I'd be seriously considering junking the entire project if I knew I had to write Perl code... (I kid, I've held my nose and edited Perl before.) – rclocher3 Dec 09 '20 at 17:27
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    What you're describing *is* dynamic DNS, it's just running the dynamic DNS system yourself instead of using a public one, and using a non-standard update method :) – hobbs - KC2G Dec 09 '20 at 18:35
  • Well, what I want to know is how do I get the ip addresses from end user nodes that have the register statement pointing to my server, and put those ip addresses in a zone somehow? That's the part I'm missing. I guess I don't fully understand it. – byaeger Dec 10 '20 at 22:03

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