Network failed to establish a new connection

SatNOGS
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I have 2 separate ground stations running and one of them (station 3297) begins failing after successfully making 1 or 2 observations with the following error:
Prs3k@adsb-pi:~ $ systemctl status satnogs-client.service
● satnogs-client.service - SatNOGS client
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/satnogs-client.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-01-23 11:22:25 MST; 49min ago
Main PID: 420 (satnogs-client)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
CPU: 7.558s
CGroup: /system.slice/satnogs-client.service
└─420 /var/lib/satnogs/bin/python /var/lib/satnogs/bin/satnogs-client

Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: return request(“get”, url, params=params, **kwargs)
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: File “/var/lib/satnogs/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/api.py”, line 59, in request
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: File “/var/lib/satnogs/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 587, in request
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: File “/var/lib/satnogs/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 701, in send
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: File “/var/lib/satnogs/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 565, in send
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
Jan 23 11:22:35 adsb-pi satnogs-client[420]: requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘network.satnogs.org’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/jobs/?ground_station=3297&lat=39.543&lon=-104.93&alt=1795 (Caused by NewConnectionError>

I tried reinstalling the image from scratch and get the same error. This did not start happening until the latest satnogs image updates were released. I’m able to ping the server just fine. I tried apt update, apt upgrade, apt dist-upgrade, satnogs-upgrade, and updating through satnogs-setup.

Dashboard: SatNOGS Network - Ground Station Team RKS (ADSB/UHF)

System configuration:
Installed: satnogs-client-ansible-202209101521, satnogs-client-1.8.1, satnogs-flowgraphs-1.4-1
Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4, RTL-SDR Blog V3, ADSB Antenna

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prs3k,

I am not to sure why your current setup is failing but I notice that you are using an old version of the SatNOGS software.

One of the unfortunate aspects of volunteer organisations such as SatNOGS is that sometimes the website documentation can lag the software releases.

Your setup is using the version of the software from the Wiki….Release 2022091000. The SatNOGS development team released a new version in Nov 2023…….Release 2023111400. This new version only fixes the PGP Key Expired error but if you don’t fix the previous release correctly I suspect you could get into trouble.

The location for the various releases is Tags · librespacefoundation / SatNOGS / satnogs-pi-gen · GitLab. I got this from the Community Blog back in Nov 2023 when it was released.

Using the new release I have rebuilt all my stations (UHF, VHF & Testing) with no real issues.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
John - VK4JBE

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That’s weird, I could have sworn I grabbed that November release and that’s when the issues started. I’ll try upgrading and see if that does the trick, thank you!