Hub_EU aka London_UK convers server

London_UK convers server is back online as Hub_EU

Anyone wishing to connect may do so on: convers.g1fef.co.uk:3600

If you do connect, please drop me a note with brief details of your host, eg: nodename, ip address, your name and email address.

To view the convers map as viewed from Hub_EU please Click Here
The map was generated on Sat, 19 May 2012 02:21:18 +0100 and is normally updated once every 24 hours at 0200 GMT

The following statistics were extracted from the data :

Total number of links : 54
Total number of nodes : 55

Software version totals:

unknown : 48
saupp1.6 : 42
Connected : 2
jnos2.0i : 1
jnos2.0d : 1

You can view some archived maps Here

Here is another view of the network, updated hourly: http://iz6rdb.trentalancia.com/en/linkcrawl.png

And a more visual map of the network: http://www.wwconvers.ampr.org/

What is this page all about?

For those of you who are wondering, what this page is all about...

convers is a network of servers throughout the world running one of the many versions of conversd - a program which enables clients connecting to any of the servers to instantly communicate with anyone else on the network.

After a client connects, the user selects a channel and any message typed appears on the console of every other user in the same channel, worldwide.

A lot of the servers are running over the amateur radio packet network and RF links are a big part of the system. There are a few "hubs" that help glue the RF network together via the Internet - Hub_EU is the primary European hub.

If you run a convers server and want to link into the network, you should link into the nearest hub to you geographically. Hub_EU if your server is in Europe or Hub_NA if you are in the Americas.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please link only to ONE hub, if you want to set a backup link, please comment it out in your config and only enable it if you cannot connect to your first choice. The biggest problem on the convers network is loops caused by badly configured servers, please help to eliminate these problems, not add to them!

If you are interested in joining the convers network, and you are located in Europe, please feel free to link to Hub_EU on convers.g1fef.co.uk port 3600

Server and Software Details

Hub_EU is running conversd saupp-1.62a on Centos 5.5 Linux.
The convers software can be obtained in several ways:

ampr:
- browseable CVS:
  - http://db0tud.ampr.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ampr/conversd-saupp/
- http download:
  - http://db0tud.ampr.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ampr/conversd-saupp.tar.gz?view=tar
- public ftp:
  - ftp://db0tud.ampr.org/pub/local/conversd-saupp/conversd-saupp.tar.gz
- anon rsync:
  - rsync -auvz --delete rsync://db0tud.ampr.org/cvs/ampr/conversd-saupp .
- anon cvspserver:
  - export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@db0tud.ampr.org:/var/cvs
    cvs -z6 checkout ampr/conversd-saupp
internet:
- browseable CVS:
  - http://x-berg.in-berlin.de/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ampr/conversd-saupp/
- http download:
  - http://x-berg.in-berlin.de/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/ampr/conversd-saupp.tar.gz?view=tar
- anon rsync:
  - rsync -auvz --delete rsync://x-berg.in-berlin.de/cvs/ampr/conversd-saupp .
- anon cvspserver:
  - export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@x-berg.in-berlin.de:/var/cvs
    cvs -z6 checkout ampr/conversd-saupp

I have also made the source I use on Hub_EU available locally: convers-saupp-1.62a.tar.gz

The server hardware is a Dell Poweredge 2U rackmount server, it has dual core Xeon processors running at 1.6GHz, with 4GB of physical memory and four 120GB SATA HDDs, three of them form a RAID 5 array, the fourth being a hot-spare.

If you do link in, please drop me a note to let me know, I can be contacted HERE

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de G1FEF