[Dxspider-support] Dx-World and DxCluster

[Ian Maude]

I, along with others have been banging on about registration since 2001!

73 Ian

> On 10 Feb 2023, at 21:43, Mikel EA2CW via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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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