[Ovmsdev] Firmware 2.8.1

[Michael Balzer]

User feedback: using the host name instead of the IP works with german
carriers Telekom (D1), O2 and E-Plus.

Only D2 (Vodafone) has not been tested yet, but I don't expect any
problems there.

It seems there is no general need for the GPRSDNS parameter?

Regards,
Michael


Am 25.09.2015 um 04:10 schrieb Mark Webb-Johnson:
> While I agree about the TTL and possibility of badly configured
> caching servers not honouring it, in the greater scheme of things it
> is really irrelevant.
>
> This last change of address was urgently made by TMC, not realising it
> would impact us. It is only by blind luck that they hadn’t released
> the old address back to the amazon pool. If that had happened, every
> user would have had to manually sms their cars to make the change.
>
> Luckily, they hadn’t released the address, so could assign it to
> another VM. I then did a socat on that machine, to forward the traffic
> to our new address. Then, some magic on the ovms_server.pl to
> reprogram cars connecting from the old address to switch to the new
> one. We’d done a similar thing a few years back, so I knew it would work.
>
> Faced with that, a couple of hours of downtime, due to a DNS switch,
> is not so worrying ;-)
>
> That said, I don’t see any option on register.com
> <http://register.com> to set the TTL. Seems fixed at 4 hours. I’ll
> check further.
>
> Regarding the change from server IP to server name, I would be
> grateful if more developers could try it, around the world. Let me
> know the results here. In particular, with the popular carriers in USA
> and Europe. It would be vastly simpler to just tell people to change
> to use a name, rather than messing around with google DNS servers.
>
> Regards, Mark.
>
>> On 25 Sep, 2015, at 12:17 am, HONDA S-2000 <s2000 at audiobanshee.com
>> <mailto:s2000 at audiobanshee.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2015, at 5:46 AM, Collin Kidder <collink at kkmfg.com
>> <mailto:collink at kkmfg.com>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Michael Balzer <dexter at expeedo.de
>>> <mailto:dexter at expeedo.de>> wrote:
>>>> I just checked the DNS record for tmc.openvehicles.com
>>>> <http://tmc.openvehicles.com>:
>>>>
>>>> tmc.openvehicles.com <http://tmc.openvehicles.com>.    14399    IN
>>>>    A    54.197.255.127
>>>>
>>>> I suggest reducing the TTL to 1 hour before we recommend the change to
>>>> users.
>>>
>>> Keep in mind that much of the internet is ruled by caching name
>>> servers that will be quite stubborn about having to update their
>>> records. I seriously doubt that a TTL of 1 hour will be honored by
>>> much of anything. You're lucky if the ISP name servers bother to check
>>> for updates more than once or twice a day.
>>
>> I'm fairly certain that there are no caching servers that ignore TTL.
>> It would thwart emergency services if short TTL values were ignored.
>> My ISP has changed my server ip address only once, and they went
>> through the same process of shortening the TTL before the scheduled
>> change, then increasing it back to normal after the new ip address
>> was activated.
>>
>> The catch is that any change does not take effect until the old TTL
>> expires. The "14399" above is 4 hours. So, if the TTL were changed to
>> 1 hour, it would not take effect on all caching servers until 4 hours
>> later. At that point, though, all DNS servers would be working with a
>> TTL of 1 hour. The typical is more like 24 hours, so the 4 hour entry
>> above is rather short. If 24 hours were used, then the ISP would need
>> to start the process 24 hours early by changing the TTL to 1 hour a
>> whole day in advance of the ip address change. But at long as you
>> know the current TTL and plan ahead, it's always possible to make a
>> prompt transition.
>>
>> Those name servers that only bother to check once or twice a day are
>> doing exactly as they're told, and will check every hour if told to
>> do so instead.
>>
>> Brian
>>
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