[Dxspider-support] Spider Nodes used by ROS to auto-spot

[SM6U, Rickard]

Hi, thanks for the information. I've been noticing lots of rapid connect and disconnects lately, wich I found strange since our cluster is just a shell for the webcluster. 

Is it just me, or are most of the "targeted" clusters thoose who discussed the ROS-problem last time?

Will badword ROS asap and theb set up for registered users only when I return home from the SK9HQ event. Hope to work you during the weekend!

/SM6U, Rick
 sector7.nu / sm6.se / sk6aw.net

9 jul 2010 kl. 04:56 skrev VK3AMA <vk3ama at gmail.com>:

> While researching ROS cluster spots arriving at HamSpots.net via the Cluster, I have discovered how the ROS software is auto-spotting to a list of nodes that may be of concern to the Node Sysops.
> 
> The following Spider Node addresses are hard-coded in the software.
> 
> dxc.us6iq.com
> dxc.ham.hr
> 9a0dxc.hamradio.hr
> remo3.renet.ru
> cluster.sk4bw.net
> ax25.org
> sk3w.se
> sector7.nu
> sm7gvf.dyndns.org
> 
> ROS software establishes a connection at startup using your callsign and varies which node it connects to, not always the same node.
> 
> When a qso is logged  a spot is auto generated (there is no option in ROS to turn this off that I could find) and the text of the spot is changed based on another hard-coded list of messages. This is obviously done to give the impression that the spot is sent from a human (unlike the past flooding of the network, same text and same node). No where in the ROS FAQ or User Guide is this behaviour documented.
> 
> I ran ROS in RX mode today, after a callsign was decoded, I hit the log button and it sent a spot to the cluster without permission with my name and call thanking the other station for the QSO.
> 
> A quick review of recent ROS spots shows the same nodes being used and similar style comments.
> 
> What other surprises are hidden in this software?
> 
> de Laurie, VK3AMA
> 
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