[Dxspider-support] Partner seek.

[Jose M. Valdes R (Joe) YV5LIX]

Hello Dirk.

I was out of town on a business trip so I'm sorry for the delay.

I agree with you and Charlie, and I will leave my configuration as it is
with just some minor changes to the CRONTAB and filtering configuration,
after all it seems to be working just fine as it is, and the users are very
happy with the cluster configuration and performance thanks to Charlie and
Roland.

73 Joe, YV5LIX


-----Original Message-----
From: dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org
[mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of Dirk Koopman
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 14:30
To: yv5lix at yv5lix.org.ve; Dxspider-Support
Subject: RE: [Dxspider-support] Partner seek.

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:55 +0000, Jose M. Valdes R (Joe) YV5LIX wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Wow, what a great response to my request.
> 
> I received 14 offers for connecting the node, thanks to every one who
reply.
> 
> To be in the fair site, and since I'm new to the DX cluster community, 
> I selected the first two offers that I received in the order in which 
> they arrived to my mailbox; now I have some few questions.
> 
> To how many nodes should I connect? 
> 

To start with, just connect to *one* (well connected) node. By "well
connected", I mean a node that is used to dealing with many nodes, therefore
has a full "WW" feed and is used to guiding people through the minefield of
network loops.

Connecting to more than one node at a time can cause loops and much anguish,
depending on what sort of software you connect to and also the default node
filtering policies of those nodes. 

> It is a good idea to be connected to several nodes? 
> 

It depends on your requirements. For a normal, user oriented, "leaf"
node, one good connection and (maybe) a backup is all you need.

As you become more experienced and also proficient at filtering, you can
then start to offer connections to other (new) nodes.  

For now, please, PLEASE just stick to one connection.

Dirk G1TLH
--
Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>


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