[Dxspider-support] Dx-World and DxCluster

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Hi Dan

 

That was an interesting few minutes as I just as I used your command that you showed RCMD partner_call SH/VER and all of my node connection with the exception of three are all running 

Old software some of them very old.

 

I agree with many of the sentiments of recent posts about the state of the network.

At our local radio club Friday meeting this was a hot topic and without exception all of the members present want to see 2FA to be able to login to a DXcluster and bad nodes disconnected.

This is something that I am not sure how we achieve without some additional coding by Dirk and others but this should not be entirely up to them as they have not caused this issue.

If all DXclusters had as a minimum registration to log on this would help and DXcluster all using the most up-to-date software but it’s going to take the majority of sysops to play an active role 

and I can see this being the most difficult part.

 

I am no Linux expert but I manage to keep the clusters here up-to-date and this forum is a fantastic resource with lots of help if required you just need to ask.

I think we need to collectively start to think about what we do, as it can’t stay as is for any longer.

 

73 Keith GB7DXG-1

 

From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> On Behalf Of Danilo Brelih via Dxspider-support
Sent: 11 February 2023 08:38
To: Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
Cc: Danilo Brelih <danilo.brelih at siol.net>
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Dx-World and DxCluster

 

Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support je 10.2.2023 ob 17:04 napisal:

I have added my views to this website. Will it make a difference? I hope so. Dirk G1TLH 

Maybe it is time to start taking small steps ourselves.

My partners all have latest Mojo build installed except one. Today I wrote owner of the outdated node an email saying that I am suspending my connection with him until he upgrades his system and then I can restore the connection easily.

Let's check the version installed used by our partner node with:

RCMD partner_call SH/VER
 
RCMD 'sh/ver' sent to partner_call
S50U de S50CLX 11-Feb-2023 0751Z 2.4481  dxspider >
DX Spider Cluster version 1.55 (build 0.181 git: 65ed61f[r]) on Linux
Copyright (c) 1998-2023 Dirk Koopman G1TLH

Because his system is outdated I removed connection routine from my /spider/local_cmd/crontab line starting with # and this line will be ignored.

 
#0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('partner_call') unless connected('partner_call')
 
 

Next disconnect your outdated node issuing DISC command from console.

DISC partner_call
 
Node partner_call has logged out
Channel partner_call disconnected
S50U de S50CLX 11-Feb-2023 0810Z 2.4481  dxspider >
 
 

If your outdated node is connecting to you then use lockout command from console which prevents it from connecting to your node.

SET/LOCKOUT partner_call
 

Maybe this is only "one small step for man, but one giant leap for ......" 😉

CU Dan S50U sys S50CLX

 
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Gorje, Cerkno h=604m <https://s50e.si/gorje.html> 

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