[Dxspider-support] Dx-World and DxCluster

[Mikel EA2CW]

Letting appart the way the issue is exposed, the can of worms has been 
finally open.

Unfortunately serious events must occur for the people to be *really* 
concerned about a problem which has been covered since long time. Being 
aware of the insecurity of the big net today, we are still using naive 
protocols like telnet to feed the info into ours. The results are at sight.

Steps must be taken in order to:
– Develope a secure net of nodes (secure protocols, origin and destiny 
propper identification, info integrity checking, secure adding of new 
nodes, etc.)

– Adequate id of users to allow them feeding info to this net. Let the 
people use the net as client without id, but make it a must to upload info

– Adapt 1st: the sofware of nodes to these requirements, and 2nd: force 
the client softwares (contest, logging, etc) to follow them. If you want 
an information of quality, you must secure the info circulating (again: 
certify origin, destination, information integrity, etc).

– Keep the nodes soft up to date. The developers’ efforts will be 
useless if then you have an old and “relaxed” node. If you don’t mantain 
it, you must be put out of the net (actually, there are dx-cluster 
servers whose sysops are SK, or have their software without updating for 
decades)

IMHO, there is no need to keep two nets apart. But if you are connecting 
from an insecure node (let's say level 1) you can only conect to level 2 
(secure) servers as a "passive" client, but never being able to upload 
information. Soon the final clients (contesters & DXers) will know -and 
do- which node connect to in order to have confidable and useful spots.

Or we start moving (all of us, whether sysops or clients) or the 
dxcluster net will soon become unusable.

73, Mikel EA2CW sysop EA2CW-1 (cc-cluster) and EA2CW-2 (dx-spider)

El 10/02/2023 a las 14:51, Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support 
escribió:
> Hello all,
> please read carefully this article apperared today on Dx-World web site:
>
> https://www.dx-world.net/unacceptable-behaviour-on-dx-clusters/
>
> 73 Luigi IK5ZUK
>
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