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aprsc, a core APRS-IS server
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If one of the aprs servers is down, how the aprs network continue to run ? #36

Closed pyrog closed 7 years ago

pyrog commented 7 years ago

Several aprs server are connected themselves. (Seem to be the uplink connections ?)

What happen in the following case:

  1. An aprs client is connected to i.e aprs server 1
  2. The network connection is lost with this specific server

Does the client "know" the other aprs servers ? Does it could reconnect automatically itself with one of these server ?

hessu commented 7 years ago

APRS-IS clients typically connect to a DNS round-robin hostname with load balancing, such as rotate.aprs2.net, which returns IP addresses for multiple servers. The client can reconnect automatically to the other servers.

This is not a bug or feature request for aprsc, so marking INVALID. Please post follow-up questions to one of the relevant mailing lists (APRSSIG, aprsc group, aprs2net group).