[Dxspider-support] DXspider: how to connect to other clusters?

[Ian Maude]

Has the cluster you connect to set you as a cluster node?  Once you
are connected to the other cluster, the connection should stay until
one of you disconnects it in some way, but both ends have to
set/spider (assuming both ends are running dxspider) or it is just a
user connection.
You should also look at the wiki regarding having the cluster start in
the background.  You will also find information on how to set up the
node for incoming user connections there.

http://wiki.dxcluster.org

73 Ian

On 14 November 2014 12:44, Georgi Tango <maplemann411 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> I have setup dxspider v.1.55 on my redhat linux and it seems to work fine.
> However I am slightly confused about how to use it. Maybe someone can help
> me. Here is what I've got so far.
>
> I start the ./cluster.pl, no errors. ("queue msg(0)")
>
> Now I should have my dxcluster running, but no users obviously, because
> nobody knows about it. To receive DX spots I've created a script in
> /spider/connect/ to connect for example to ea4rch-5:
>
> timeout 60
> connect telnet dxfun.com 8000
> 'login:' <my callsign>
> 'password:'
> client earch-5 telnet
>
> In a new window I can run ./console.pl and type
> connect ea4rch-5
>
> Now I see DX spots in the cluster.pl window. After 60s I get the connection
> timeout message. To circumvent this I've setup a crontab in
> /spider/local_cmd
>
> * * * * * start_connect('ea4rch-5') unless connected('ea4rch-5')
>
> So the connection is established every 60 seconds.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> 1.) Why are the DX spots from ea4rch-5 only visible in the cluster.pl
> window. and not for example if I execute:
>
> /spider/src/client <mycallsign>
>
> 2.) how can I "forward" all DX spots to all the users of my DXcluster
>
> 3.) This crontab seems to be an inefficient way to connect to another
> cluster, is there a more sophisticated way?
>
>
> I think I am getting something wrong, I would greatly appreciate it if
> somebody could shed some light on this.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Peter
>
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