[Dxspider-support] Feature Request

[Lee Sawkins]

I am not sure who "went away in disgust"
   
  However, the only privacy we seem to be protecting is the pirate's.  If the pirate is quick enough he can disconnect and you can't easily find out his IP address.  A non-sysop or non-privileged user can easily find out the IP address of any connected user by a simple "who".  It is only after a user disconnects that his information becomes protected.
   
  While it is great that the data is logged, what happens when the sysop of GB7... doesn't reply to email, as happened when trying to track down the bogus G0NVD.  The last bogus EI2IU spot was at 23-Dec-2005 1703Z, only a few hours ago.  He hasn't gone away in disgust, if that is who you are talking about.  Can anyone take action on this spot, or is it simply to be ignored?  Comments from the bogus EI2IU include things like "show again on idiots from the UK...." and "STUPID IRISH MAN......." and "I AM A STUPID SELFSPOTTER TOGETHER WITH G0NVD....."
   
   If you are ok with this, then I guess I will have to be quiet.
   
  Lee
   
  Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 12:13 -0800, Lee Sawkins wrote:
> > There has been lots of abuse of the Dx Spider clusters recently.
> > Bogus spots from calls such as G0NVD, EI2IU, DL5AA, DL5AB have been
> > posted.  In order to track down the pirate(s) using these calls, it
> > would be nice to have IP addresses of users readily available to
> > anyone who wants them.
> >
> > If a user enters the command "who", he will be given the IP addresses
> > for currently connected users.  If however the user connects to the
> > node after the pirate has left, he cannot easily find out what IP
> > address the pirate was using.   It would be nice if the command
> > "sh/log G0NVD" would give the log data for old connections of G0NVD to
> > the cluster.  Then using a WHOIS search, the ISP for the pirate can be
> > found and an official complaint to them can be made.
> > http://www.whois.sc seems to be a good site to use.
> 
> It does. The IP address is logged on connect.
> 
> 23Dec2005 at 19:55:54 G4PCI connected from 194.146.226.26
> 23Dec2005 at 19:55:55 G4PCI disconnected
> 23Dec2005 at 20:17:07 G4PCI connected from 194.146.226.26
> 23Dec2005 at 20:17:08 G4PCI disconnected
> 
> *But* this information is only available to the sysop or someone with
> elevated privileges. This is for some level of privacy, but the
> information is available to nail people who abuse. Also all badword
> matches are logged and the logging is designed to provide a full audit
> trail of abuse, especially when merged with debug data (there are
> programs available to do this).
> 
> Can I just say that we have been here before... he went away in
> disgust :-)
> 
> Dirk

		
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