Manually testing respondd

[rdiez]

I am trying to troubleshoot my Gluon node not appearing on the Freifunk map. This is a rather common problem, especially after some recent changes to Gluon.

In the process, I wanted to check that respondd is working properly. So I wanted to test it from the command line. I got as far as this:

printf "GET nodeinfo" | socat STDIO UDP6-DATAGRAM:[fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456]:1001

The trouble is, the data returned is compressed. How can I decompress it with command-line tools? "gunzip -d" does not work. Some people suggest using "openssl zlib -d" or some other such tool, but I could not find anything readily available on Gluon.

I would like to improve respondd's documentation with the information collected here.

[belzebub40k]

Use nodeinfo instead of GET nodeinfo to get uncompressed data.

https://gluon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/monitoring.html#gluon-respondd