[Dxspider-support] DXSpider concerns

[Ted Gervais]

At 08:25 PM 1/12/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>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.


Yes. I can connect manually just fine from the computer running 
dxspder.  No problem at all.

>  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 (-;  )

And ok on the port  forwarding.  I have no problem with that. But - if I 
can manually connect out to anyone, including the cluster node I am trying 
to connect with but my dxspider  fails to get to the outside world - than 
what is happening here?   I used to run dxspider before and it ran fine. It 
installed just great and so did this installation.  But it fails to get to 
the outside world.  Is there a particular file that could be messed up?  I 
deleted the whole installation and re-installed it - but that still didn't 
correct anything.  It still does the same thing.

I also did the clean installation from the CVS site so I presume that is ok 
too.  No older files that might interfere etc.. Just the files taken down 
from the CVS site.


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

And yes. I remember you from those good ole days.  How could I forget...



>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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Ted Gervais,
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada