Regions should be visible also in guest administration

[pemensik]

I would like my nearby repeaters admins to see what regions I have configured or maybe whether even I have at least one region documented. I would like to have possibility to make regions defined on my repeater visible to guests. I would like to see also theirs.

There are multiple alternatives:

• Make some boolean in configuration, which would make all regions defined visible even to guests in administration.
• Make additional flag to every region, whether it is publicly known or not. Kind of addition to allowf/denyf flag?
• Always make regions visible.

As a current workaround, I suggested adding regions into owner info reg:+<allowed-region> -<blocked region>. But I this it should be ideally directly visible. It has similar importance as nearby repeaters IMHO.

[recrof]

current region discovery on companions is not sufficient?

[pemensik]

region discovery on companions? Where is it? I am not aware of such functionality

[recrof]

open channel convo > 3 dots > set region scope > 3 dots > discover regions

[pemensik]

ah, interesting. Have not found those. But anyway, I think ability to make state of regions configuration known per repeater would be useful thing.

[pemensik]

it is very useful to discover local used regions. I did not know it was possible. But in case you kind of want to make tracing with region enabled, that is more difficult task to do, right?

[recrof]

it is very useful to discover local used regions. I did not know it was possible. But in case you kind of want to make tracing with region enabled, that is more difficult task to do, right?

I never tried, but trace packets might(?) be clamped to set default region.. @ripplebiz might remember if he covered it when setting default regions.

[pemensik]

hmm, it might be interesting to do tracing with custom set region. But in that case it should be able to report sort of ICMP network-unreachable like response. Response that it received your trace request with this and that SNR, but it won't forward it any further.