[Dxspider-support] Problems connecting to multiple nodes as fallback

[Dirk Koopman]

I should amplify that a bit. It's Monday morning and I am feeling 
grumpy, so I was unnecessarily rude.

You should always do a test login with your node callsign. That will 
tell you two things:

1. You are connecting to AE5E, not W1AAA, so rename your connect file 
and the need for the client line goes away.
2. AE5E thinks you are a user, not a node.

Documentation that relies on user updates is notoriously unreliable. 
Just because you may have seen something on the internet that implies 
that dxspot.com is (or probably was) W1AAA, doesn't mean it still is.  
In fact the dxspots.com website says it is AE5E. So ALWAYS check with a 
trial connect using telnet first.

If the name of the connect script is the same as the callsign of the 
node, then you don't need (or want) the 'client' line. It is really only 
still available for backward compatibility and for some very exceptional 
or testing purposes that, probably, I would be the only one interested in.

Dirk

On 21/11/16 11:46, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Leave out the 'client' line. It doesn't do what you think, is 
> therefore wrong, and you don't need it.
>
> Dirk
>
> On 21/11/16 11:03, Erwin Fiten via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> When I want to connect to more then 1 node, it doesn't seem to do 
>> anything.
>> For example : connecting to W1AAA :
>>
>> I have the following connect file : /spider/connect/w1aaa
>>
>> timeout 60
>> abort (Busy|Sorry|Fail)
>> connect telnet dxspots.com <http://dxspots.com> 7300
>> 'login' 'ON0NOL-9'
>> client W1AAA telnet
>>
>> at the console I type :
>> set/spider w1aaa
>> connect w1aaa
>>
>> When I look at the log, I see :
>> 1479725465^<- I ON8AR connect w1aaa
>> 1479725465^connect 658: timeout set to 60
>> 1479725465^connect 658: timeout set to 60
>> 1479725465^connect 658: abort (Busy|Sorry|Fail)
>> 1479725465^CONNECT 658 sort: telnet command: dxspots.com 
>> <http://dxspots.com> 7300
>> 1479725465^Connected 658 to dxspots.com <http://dxspots.com> 7300
>>
>>
>> But then, nothing happens, I don't see any spots coming in from that 
>> node, and I don't see him as a connected node.
>> This happens with all other nodes to (1 is connected)
>>
>> Anything I can do to debug more? or am I doing something wrong ?
>>
>> Erwin de ON8AR
>>
>>
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