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This is a page concerning the various servers and hosts which comprise the ASL network services
This is a page concerning the various servers and hosts which comprise the ASL network services
= Overview =
The ASL architecture is designed to be scalable across donated/purchased virtual machines. Any bare metal servers will be setup with a VM technology, ASL is agnostic to the chosen hypervisor.
At the core of ASL service is a distributed database, which is active-active across all nodes. Registration servers talk to this database along with the nodes list and DNS servers. These services are the core of ASL services; IAX2 registration, nodes list and DNS. All other services are nice to have, but don't affect the availability of the network for end users.
The core servers are all interconnected using host to host IPSEC. This not tunnels, but rather host to host, where traffic is encrypted between hosts using pre-shared keys. These have proven to be reliable and work well even over the best effort of the internet. The DB servers require encrypted channels, as they don't support encryption at the application level. This also simplifies networking between ASL hosts.
DNS is serviced for primary DNS with short TTL's on register.allstarlink.org. Should any one server go offline, it's pulled from the DNS and turns down after 30 seconds. For the remainder of ASL hosts, several secondary servers exist.
= Servers =
= Servers =