so i just got into the ham world and getting allstarlink set up
the node shows connected on the node list, but i cant connect to it, its just timing out,
ive port forwarded everything, ive even tried changing the port allstarlink runs on, but nothing seems to be working where i can properly connect it
its driving me bonkers cuz its showing online but shows no time outs and thats all thats happening
my ISP is xplorenet they use a 5g network i have full access to port forwarding except ports they use wich is why i tried changing my allstarlink port
i have echolink installed on my comptuer and have to use a vpn plus a proxy in order to get it to work so im assuming its the isp, any help would be appreciated
ive gone and done a fresh install of allstarlink and set it up so everything is back to default,
i have ports 4569, 5198,5199 all forwarded to the machine in question in my unifi gateway control panel
its showing up that its online but still timing out,
as for connecting ive had others in the area try to connect and it times out, and when i use my phone with an app called repeaterphone wich allows me to connect to both allstar and echolink nodes it times out,
when trying to connect through echolink desktop software it also times out, echolink cant even pingtest the node
ive tried connecting it to 579051, 579050, 43085 ive even had those nodes try to connect to mine and they tell me it times out,
i have to suspect its my isp but all my ports are forwarded
Due to the common problems with both asl and echolink, which are separate systems in config,
I would venture to say the issue is in your proxy.
Your going to have to do some network tracing I guess.
But you might try to ping a known node and have them ping you back as I might suspect that the issue is in the return path for acknowledgement - Inbound route to port.
any kind of connection, if someone tries to dial in to link they tell me their told it times out, any apps i have that connect to allstar nodes time out,
Watch the screen output and it will tell you what is erroring within all asterisk verbose traffic.
And if that is something you don’t understand, post it here.
If you see nothing, let us know that.
You might also look in /var/log/asterisk file for errors to get a hint where to look.
One possibility is your firewall is blocking them in which case you might not see any error.
But I am assuming that ‘as you said’ your router has correct port forwarding to the correct ip of your node.
But I know nothing you are not telling me. So we are still wide open for possibilities.
While you are the only one that can tell if the IP/ports are setup correct,
I will say that
The ASL IAX port forwards should be UDP
And I can’t tell from what I see that’s what is forwarded.
Will not work if TCP only. I might assume both udp and tcp is forwarded in that, I don’t know that…
I have re-read everything you have stated here a few times to get it all in perspective.
My conclusion is that you either have a firewall issue or your 5g isp is blocking ports.
SO, I am wondering what you concluded with trying to ping each others server from a known node.
(ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from a system command propmt)
This might tell us if a block is in one direction only.
In the case it is the ISP,
You might try a test by changing the port to something arbitrarily high like 8120
But be sure to set it the same at the ASL self portal and in your iax.conf and rpt.conf files if you do.
And the router.
There is no real good reason to use the default 4569 anyway.
Just makes you the target of many telephony hacks.
Can you say what version of the software you are using ?
And if you installed the iptables and fail2ban firewall included in our packages ?
