[Dxspider-support] FYI: 4 new nodes added to ROS Auto-Spotting function.

[SM6U, Rickard]

I vote YES for cripple mode! Please make it configurable, but on by default.

Even if it only covers thoose running updated spiders, it will sure cause trouble for the softwares that keep abusing the cluster network, possibly convincing the creators to change the code. 

/Rick, sm6u
 on the phone

14 jul 2010 kl. 09:39 skrev Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>:

> On 12/07/10 21:51, VK3AMA wrote:
>> FYI
>> 
>> The latest release of ROS software has added 4 new nodes to
>> auto-spotting function.
>> 
>> BG2RVL-9 dx.5iyou.cn:7373
>> BD5RV dxc.jsdxc.net:7300
>> BA2IA-2 spot.ba2ia.com:7300
>> 9H1LO-1 dx.9h1lo.net:7300
>> 
>> At time of this email, of the last 150 ROS cluster spots,
>> 148 were auto-generated (98.7%).
>> 
> 
> If all major nodes were to do a "set/badword ros" then it probably does not matter that he keeps adding to the list, as the spots won't propagate very far.
> 
> On an other tack: I have been wondering for a while what to do with all the programs (of which the ROS stuff is but one) that insist on logging in, doing one or two things (eg send a spot or sh/dx), then immediately logging out.
> 
> Now, the code already does not bother (in most cases) to send out routing information for these in/out merchants, but I am now thinking that I ought perhaps to be a bit more brutal.
> 
> It would be a fairly simple job to have some kind of averaging or pump up timer that has the effect going into "cripple" mode if the last n connections were less than m seconds long.
> 
> "Cripple" mode would something like pretending to be a nice cooperative cluster that accepts spots, but does not send them on, and/or returns a *very* limited view of data such as spots (maybe only two or three spots else spots that are an hour or so old).
> 
> If the user starts to behave like a real person and connects p times for more than m seconds, it automatically comes out of "cripple" mode. While in "cripple" mode for more than (say) 2*m+random amount seconds then de-cripples that user for that session. This behaviour persists until they have behaved for p sessions.
> 
> "Misbehaviour" puts the user back into "cripple" mode.
> 
> Views anyone?
> 
> Dirk G1TLH
> 
> 
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