[Dxspider-support] Keeping spots from propagating beyond the local cluster

[Dirk Koopman]

You can do this with a filter on nodes that, for instance, you don't
want to share 'domestic' spots. For example, if you wanted to prevent me
(connected to you as GB7DJK) getting N8 to US mainland spots, something
like this would do the job:-

rej/spot gb7djk by_state MI,OH,WV call_zone 4,5

This prevents any spots coming from those states and spotting other
people in mainland US. You can add stuff like 'on hf' or 'on vhf' or if
you just want this to apply to stuff coming from just your node
something like 'origin N8DCJ-2' will do that.

See: help rej/spot and help filter (or the online manual) for more info.

Dirk G1TLH

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 16:29, Dan Bookwalter wrote:

> Dirk
> 
> the reason for "hiding" the spots is due to the fact
> that they will be intra-club, mostly domestic <-->
> domestic spots... the idea is not to burden the entire
> world with these spots... and yes it would on a spot
> by spot basis as to wether or not they are kept local
> or sent on to the entire world... other than these
> club spots all others would sent upstream for the
> whole world to see...
> 
> 
> Dan N8DCJ
> 
> --- Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:51, Dan Bookwalter wrote:
> > > Dirk
> > > 
> > > ideally i would like to have a specific command
> > that
> > > only sends the dx spot to the local cluster.
> > otherwise
> > > the users could use the regular dx command... i
> > would
> > > prefer not to rely on the filters on the upstream
> > > cluster.
> > > 
> > > i am new to Linux and am starting to play around
> > with
> > > PERL... i wasnt sure if i could accomplish my
> > goals
> > > using the PC11 event (i came from windows
> > programming
> > > :-) ) in the local.pm file.
> > 
> > Linux doesn't really come into this. If there is any
> > fiddling to be done
> > it will be in perl. 
> > 
> > Have you discovered / RTFM the filtering docs? 
> > 
> > I know that you say that you want a separate command
> > but that is really
> > only justified if the circumstances of use are
> > effectively random. For
> > example: a user decides on a spot by spot basis
> > whether they want *that*
> > spot to propagate WW or locally.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that then begs the question as to:
> > why? 
> > 
> > Even more unfortunately there probably isn't much
> > sympathy in the
> > DXCluster world for people that on the one hand
> > accept WW spots but, on
> > the other, are not prepared to share their spots WW.
> >   
> > 
> > So, I think you are going to have to give us a much
> > better idea as to
> > what it is that you want *actually* do and then let
> > me/the group suggest
> > methods of achieving it.
> > 
> > Dirk G1TLH 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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