D-STAR not linking to D-STAR servers

Information that may be helpful for obtaining a unique (club) callsign in the US can be found below:

However, a unique callsign for ircDDB may not be needed for your purpose(??). Below is a cut and pasted note from an article discussing callsign registration.

Note: Many of us, for callsign routing, moved on from G2 to using the ircDDB system. But some people did not like, when using ircDDB for callsign routing etc., to have to also register at ircddb.net. These people believe each country’s FCC equivalents have regulations about being licensed, and that is enough, and in any case, there is no way to stop people from breaking the law and using someone else’s registered callsign.

So some of them took the open source code for creating an ircDDB server and created the rr.openquad.net server. This is now an option when configuring a homebrew gateway using either G4KLX’s ircDDBGateway (ircDDB tab), or FREE STAR*s gateway. It does not require any registration and you can leave the password field blank.

http://www.k6jm.com/usasetupclub.htm

Interesting.... This just came across ircDDBGateway Yahoo Groups posted by John Hays, K6VE.
http://ar-dns.net/
You can curl or wget the files... 

Amateur Radio DNS ServerThis is a DNS service for Amateur Radio Applications starting with D-STAR applications
Use commands like curl or wget to pull these host files to your system. Each of these files is timestamped and built live from collected data, upon your request.

DNS Lookups use <CALLSIGN>.dgw.ar-dns.net
DPlus lookups use REFxxx.dplus.ar-dns.net
DExtra lookups use XRFxxx.dextra.ar-dns.net
XLX lookups use <XLX|REF|DCS|XRF>xxx.xlx.ar-dns.net

Latest Updates

Wed Mar 29 2017 15:40:34 GMT-0700 (PDT)
Record Type	Name	Value
A	pt2mtd.dgw.ar-dns.net	177.5.77.187
A	n4bzj.dgw.ar-dns.net	174.223.11.229
A	va3khs.dgw.ar-dns.net	174.112.48.96

These lists are updated 100s of times a day with new gateway IP addresses

Hosts that are changing addresses frequently

Contact K7VE, if you have IP address sources that should be added.
k7ve@k7ve.org