[Dxspider-support] Add IP address tp PC16

[Lee Sawkins]

Iain you may delete this message without reading it.



The most important use for DX Clusters is to distribute DX spots.  Yet
these DX spots account for a minor amount of the traffic.  The PC92
traffic is many times the DX spot traffic.  This is mainly the "who is
connected" traffic.  If you could turn off the PC92 traffic for all your
node links except one or two reliable ones, you would greatly reduce
your backbone traffic and not lose anything.  Better yet, only use a
couple of node links.

I would really prefer to only see the IP addresses in DX spots and not
anywhere else.  Since the number of these spots is small, the increase
in data would be too be small.

I am quite willing to share my IP to country list with Spider.  This
list is quite accurate.  Today with this list I dropped all the DX spots
from W0RLD and GL0BE, which were all Spam about global warming.  The
last dropped spot was from the call E51XIW complaining about DLs.  This
spot originated in SM, not E5.  The dropped one before that was from the
call SP0O which had some bad words in Polish directed at an SP station. 
This spot's IP said DL, not SP.

I am not running a Spider cluster, but I will not be implementing
registration.  It is simply too much work.  In the last 3.5 years I have
received PC41 data from over 62,000 different calls.  That is how many
different cluster users there has been.  I estimate a minimum of 10,000
of them have connected to my cluster.

Lee

Gordon Stewart wrote:
> 
> Hi Dirk and Sysops,
> 
> I have been following this subject for the last week or two and would
> like to add my 10 cents worth to the discussion.
> 
> A large number of Spider Sysops are already using "Registration
> required". I have been using this for a few years now. It provides just
> a reasonable amount of security in that anyone can still log in with a
> Registered Call sign once they have found one to use.
> 
> So the next step is to go to the pass-word option that Dirk has provided
> in the software. You may well say this is an inconvenience for the
> users, and it will be for those who are using client programs that do
> not allow both user call-sign and user pass-word to be stored in the
> program. In todays world any pass words used would need to be 10+
> characters long to be effective.
> 
> And as Anthony states below, everyone must do this to be totally effective.
> How do we achieve that ???
> Dirk, can we make this mandatory in the Spider code ??? ie remove the
> current "options" for registration and pass-word.
> 
> Why do I prefer this method rather than "Adding IP addresses to PC16" ??
> 
> Again a large number of us are using our valuable Broadband DSL
> allocations for this Service, and in my case I am now reaching and
> exceeding my allocated Data Usage because of the increasing traffic to
> and from the Spider Cluster.
> I am now reducing my Node connections in an attempt to manage this
> increasing traffic flow.
> 
> This is a security problem to day and it will not go away by itself in
> the future. We must resolve how best to manage this problem in order to
> maintain the integrity and security of our Spider Network.
> 
> My thoughts for what they are worth.
> 
> Gordon
> Sysop
> ZL2ARN-10