[Dxspider-support] DXSpider concerns

[charlie carroll]

Ted:
You are seeing the lines like:

-> D ED7ZAB-5 Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
-> D ED7ZAB-5 Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>

because you did not set him as a DXspider node.  As a result, any time 
you connect, he gets treated as a user.  Any node-to-node connection 
needs to be coordinated between sysops such that they use the set/spider 
<callsign> command "at both ends."  Try set/spider ed7zab-5.

You're correct, he is connecting to you.  Not knowing your exact 
configuration, one could assume that you have some port, maybe 7300, 
opened up through your router to let outside connect attempts in to your 
server.  The only way he can connect to you is if a port is open on the 
router.

On the other hand, if you are initiating the connection, you do not need 
a port open on the router.

It's like this... if you issue the connect command from your node to 
some other node on the outside of the router, you do not need to open 
any port through the router for DXSpider.

On the other hand, connections from the outside world, through the 
router to your DXSpider node, need to have a port open.  Port 7300 is 
the most popular one.  Yes, others can be used.  However, for the 
moment, I wouln't worry about those other configuration.  You're still 
in the crawl stage and those fancy configurations are more like runnings.

73 charlie, k1xx/4