[Dxspider-support] DXSpider concerns

[Dale Harwood]

Ted, what happens when you manually telnet to ed7zab-5 from a command 
prompt on your cluster machine ? If you can manually connect and 
interact with the other cluster the problem lies within your spider 
install. If not, your router is the problem. No port changes need be 
changed for outbound only connections. For inbound connections from 
users as well as other clusters, you need to set your router to port 
forward whatever port you are advertising to the public to that machine. 
For example your  cluster box is 10.7.7.200 and you are using port 7300. 
You will set your router to forward all connects on port 7300 to 
10.7.7.200. That is the easiest method. As another person stated, you 
can (if your router supports it) map  connects to port 23, the standard 
telnet port, to port 7300 on 10.7.7.200. Personally I like to leave 
those ports dead and only use upper ports. That way someone has to look 
a little harder for my open port. (like that is a problem for them (-;  )

Good Luck & nice chatting with you again. (remember me from the early 
days of fbb)

Dale Harwood
N4VFF

Ted Gervais wrote:

> I have dxspider set up and working just fine but it can't get to the 
> outside world and of course nothing gets in.
>
> My situation is, I am trying to operate behind a small mechanical 
> router (Di-524) which I think is the problem with my cluster not being 
> able to telnet to the outside world.  To give you an example of what 
> is happening here is what I see on my screen when I try and connect as 
> a Cluster Node to 'ed7zab-5' :
>
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX 
> Cluster>
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 ED7ZAB-5 de VE1DRG-2 13-Jan-2006 0103Z dxspider >
> <- I ED7ZAB-5 Welcome to EA7URC-5 / ED7ZAB-5  DXSpider Gateway.
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 Invalid command
> -> D ED7ZAB-5 ED7ZAB-5 de VE1DRG-2 13-Jan-2006 0103Z dxspider >
> ED7ZAB-5 disconnected
> DXChannel ED7ZAB-5 destroyed (3)
>
>
> As you can see - it appears that ed7zab-5 is actually calling me? But 
> it is my system calling his node?
>
> I have no idea why things appear backwards but they are.  And ed7zab-5 
> is not showing any connection at that end.  My cluster never gets to 
> the outside world which is why I was thinking there were more ports I 
> had to open in that little Di-524 router.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on my situation.  Your comments would be 
> appreciated. Especially comments from others who might also be running 
> behind a little router such as this.
>
>
> ---
> Ted Gervais
> Coldbrook, Nova Scotia
> Canada. (ve1drg)
>
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