[Dxspider-support] spots with IPv6 addresses are ignored

Dirk Koopman djk at tobit.co.uk
Sat Nov 19 23:23:05 GMT 2022


I believe I have fixed this. Please update and try it.

On 19/11/2022 01:27, Tobias Wellnitz via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Hey Dirk et all,
>
> When users submit a dx spot in the web interface of DXHeat.com, I 
> create a file in /spider/cmd_import with the spot details on my local 
> node (DH1TW-2). This used to work flawlessly for several years. When 
> we were recently facing the massive spam waves, Kin, EA3CV suggested 
> to also share the IP address  of the spotter. Submitting spots in the 
> format:
> "DX <spotterCall> IP <ipAddress> <frequency> <dxcall> <comment>"
> This works fine as long as the IP address is an ipv4 Address. However, 
> the spot gets silently dropped if the IP address is an IPv6 address.
>
> Since I'm observing an increasing use of IPv6, I wanted to ask if 
> dxspider could also support the propagation of ipv6 addresses?
>
> Thanks & 73,
> Tobias, DH1TW
>
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