[Dxspider-support] ROS Mode

[Lee Sawkins]

The 4Z5LZ-2 spotters are exploiting the hole in Spider security, which I 
have pointed out before.  They connect, immediately send a spot and 
immediately disconnect.   I would not be surprised to see more of this.



If Dirk would include IP addresses in the Spider spots, at the least the 
non-Spider nodes would have a chance to dump these spots.  As it is now, the 
only way to do defend against this is to not connect to Spider clusters.  I 
have put code into CC Cluster software specifically to help Spider clusters. 
It would be nice if the favour were returned.



>From looking at these spots, it would appear they are malicious.  I can't 
believe that someone could write software like this by mistake.

Lee


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brendan Minish" <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com>
To: <dave at g7rau.co.uk>; "The DXSpider Support list" 
<dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] ROS Mode


>I think that the author of the (proprietary and un-documented) ROS mode
> software has done something with regard to automatic spotting that has
> not worked so well.
>
> I'll leave it to others to attempt to engage the Author in dialogue and
> explain why auto/spotting everything is a terrible idea.
>
> I can't see how 4Z5LZ-2 is picking up these spots as the spotting users
> don't appear to be connected to this node
>
> for now I have set 4Z5LZ-2 as a badnode and this has stemmed the tide
> here at EI7MRE
>
> perhaps the sysop of 4Z5LZ-2 might explain how these ROS spots are
> entering the system at his node?
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 21:51 +0100, Dave Edwards wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Are all these spots with "ROS Mode" in the info for real or are these
>> being injected into the cluster by a database / central system?
>>
>> 73 de Dave - GB7RAU
>>
>
> -- 
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ
>
>
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