[Dxspider-support] For all sysops

Peter pc2a at pi4cc.nl
Sun Feb 19 13:45:45 GMT 2023


Hi Kin

I think the mistake is that after a update the sysops don't restart the 
node to avoid loose of users....
Thats why you see with your script a old version.

Peter
PC2A

Op 19-2-2023 om 14:30 schreef David Spoelstra via Dxspider-support:
> Kin-
>
> Thank you for your email and thank you for all your work. I've got a 
> few questions and suggestions:
>
> 1. By your own admission, the method of determining versions seems 
> flawed. Maybe we find a method that works 100% before we send out more 
> block lists?
> 2. Are we going to send out unblock lists, or only block lists? Maybe 
> we can get this automated somehow? Do I need to personally go to all 
> my users (who have all left to other nodes since they are contesters) 
> and the nodes I was connected to and convince them that I'm no longer 
> blocked?
> 3. The first date I can find on this reflector with a block list with 
> my node on it was Feb 17. It's Feb 19 today. I only have time for ham 
> radio on the weekends. Before I could even read the reflector email, I 
> got a call from a user on my node that I wasn't getting any spots. 
> Maybe we could give people a week or two (especially if there is a big 
> contest like ARRL International DX CW this weekend) to respond if they 
> see themselves on a block list before they get blocked?
>
> Also Kin, thanks for your offer of connecting to your node. But all my 
> users are contesters and they have left me for W9YB (an AR-Cluster) 
> since my cluster stopped getting spots during one of the biggest 
> contests so I'll probably be taking my cluster down and using W9YB 
> myself. Sad since I see my cluster has been on 24x7 since Nov 1, 2010 
> "DXSpider V1.55, build 0.82 (git: b7512d7) started".
>
> Thanks for all your hard work over the years Dirk!
>
> -David, N9KT
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 6:44 AM Kin <ea3cv at cronux.net> wrote:
>
>     Dear David,
>
>     I have just run:
>
>     sh/view N9KT
>
>     Node Version Build PC9X via PC92
>
>     N9KT-2 5455 229 Yes Yes Yes
>
>     1 Nodes found
>
>     As you can see, my dxspider (Mojo build 497) tells me that you are
>     using a rather old build.
>
>     When I ran:
>
>     rcmd N9KT-2 sh/ver
>
>     RCMD 'sh/ver' sent to N9KT-2
>
>     EA3CV from EA3CV-2 19-Feb-2023 1133Z dxspider >
>
>     N9KT-2:DXSpider v1.55 (build 250 git: master/9fb58f4a[r]) using
>     perl v5.32.1 on Linux
>
>     I see you're actually on 250.
>
>     I don't know why the first information is wrongly displayed, but
>     the method of using *rcmd* is very limited because there are quite
>     a few sysops that don't allow it, so I discarded it.
>
>     I'm sorry you were excluded and I hope you will be quickly
>     reinstated as it was an unintentional mistake.
>
>     It's good to know that there are people like you who help other
>     sysops, I appreciate that selflessness, but I think your way of
>     expressing yourself is not the most appropriate. I've also been
>     put on the badnodes list for sending ANNs that users didn't like,
>     and it didn't occur to me to get that way with the sysop who did
>     it, who, by the way, I was helping with the update of his node.
>
>     It's very easy and cheap to attack, the hard part seems to be that
>     it's possible for mistakes to be made when tackling a change of
>     this magnitude.
>
>     I'm sorry for what happened and hope it gets fixed as soon as
>     possible. But if you want, I'll set you up on my node until they
>     unblock.
>
>     Sorry for my English.
>
>     Kin EA3CV
>
>     *De:* David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
>     *Enviado el:* domingo, 19 de febrero de 2023 12:28
>     *Para:* The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
>     *CC:* Kin <ea3cv at cronux.net>
>     *Asunto:* Re: [Dxspider-support] For all sysops
>
>     Kin-
>
>     I'm pissed. I was just able to sit down and go through these
>     emails from the last couple of days.
>
>     I went to lockout these nodes to be on the *team* when I find my
>     own node in your list as "N9KT-2  5455    229".
>
>     My node auto updates once a day. I went back through my logs and
>     I've been on build 250 since AT LEAST Feb 9th (as far back as my
>     logs go).
>
>     Even your own github list
>     "https://github.com/EA3CV/dxspider_info/blob/main/Node_version/Master-20230219.txt"
>     has me listed as "N9KT-2       5455     250"
>
>     So, your data is CRAP!
>
>     How do we know that the rest of your data is good? How many good
>     nodes have been locked out because of your CRAP data?
>
>     Also, you mentioned that you tried to contact each of us. I did a
>     search and came up with nothing from you. I even went through my
>     spam folder looking for something from you. I don't know which
>     email address you were using, but the address on
>     "https://www.dxcluster.info/telnet/index.php" is correct and has
>     been correct for years. I run a consulting company and receive
>     100+ emails a day to that address so I know it works.
>
>     So is this why I noticed today that suddenly I'm not connected to
>     about five nodes I used to connect to?
>
>     YOUR DATA IS CRAP!
>
>     To think how many node owners I've helped over many years and to
>     now have my node blocked because of your CRAP data really pisses
>     me off! I even helped some of the BIG nodes like WA9PIE get on
>     DXSpider!
>
>     -David, N9KT
>
>     On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 5:58 AM Kin via Dxspider-support
>     <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         I think it is time to get involved and play as a team.
>
>         After having tried to contact all the spider nodes by email,
>         the following list (except for error, sri) have not replied or
>         have not been located. I therefore ask you to block them.
>
>         It may seem very drastic, but we need the involvement of most
>         of the sysops if we want to solve the problems we have.
>
>         The blocking should be done so that we can inform those sysops
>         of the changes that have occurred and the need to update their
>         nodes. They can then be unblocked.
>
>         For those of you who think this doesn't affect you because
>         you're on your own, I think you're making a big mistake, and
>         you'll realise it when you find yourself excluded from the
>         *team*. This is a request for help to get a necessary change
>         for our Community.
>
>         This list is not just for us to ask for help and advice, it is
>         for us to answer those requests for help. There are sysops who
>         only show up here when they have problems, and when you ask
>         for their help they don't even answer you, this behaviour is
>         not part of the ideals of our hobby. We count on you?
>
>         If you can, update your details at:
>         https://www.dxcluster.info/telnet/submit.php
>         <https://www.dxcluster.info/telnet/submit.php%20> which will
>         appear at https://www.dxcluster.info/telnet/index.php
>         <https://www.dxcluster.info/telnet/index.php>
>
>         Execute command
>
>         *set/lockout <node>*
>
>         *disc <node>*
>
>         and verify with:
>
>         *sh/lockout <node>*
>
>         Unlockout is done like this:
>
>         *unset/lockout <node>*
>
>         And the list of those affected:
>
>         *Column1 Column2 Column3*
>         9M2PJU-1 5455    196
>         A61BK-1 5455    198
>         AB2VY-12 5455    200
>         AB2VY-2 5455    203
>         AB2VY-3 5455    215
>         AB2VY-6 5455    199
>         AB2VY-7 5455    210
>         AB2VY-9 5455    249
>         AI3I-15 5455    203
>         CS5ARLC-1 5455    197
>         CT1EBQ-9 5455    204
>         DB0HGW-6 5455    216
>         DB0IUZ-6 5455    249
>         DB0OVN-6 5455    249
>         DB0PRA-9 5455    115
>         DB0RBS-11 5455    249
>         DB0TUD-6 5455    100
>         DB0UHI-9 5455    166
>         DD5XX-10 5455    196
>         DG2KBC-1 5455    82
>         DK7ET-4 5455    248
>         DK7ET-5 5455
>         DL1FLW-1 5455    249
>         DQ8Z 5455    204
>         EA2RKS-2 5455    249
>         EA5URM-5 5455    216
>         EA7URG 5455
>         EA7URG-5 5455    196
>         ED3ZAK-5 5455    249
>         EW8AX-1 5455    115
>         F4ERG-3 5455    199
>         F4GVE-2 5455    175
>         F4IAA-3 5455    249
>         F5MZN-3 5455    33
>         F6KVP-3 5455    141
>         F8KHI-3 5455    198
>         G7VJR-5 5455    115
>         GB7BEX-9 5455    204
>         GB7DXX 5455    115
>         GB7IPF 5455    198
>         GB7KUX-4 5455    249
>         GB7NHR 5455    166
>         HA5KDR-3 5455    249
>         HA6DX 5455    32
>         HB9IAC-8 5455    115
>         HG6DXC 5455
>         I0INU-6 5455    216
>         I0OJJ-6 5455    250
>         IK2DUW-6 5455    166
>         IK4PKL-6 5455    115
>         IQ1GP-6 5455    249
>         IQ1LA-6 5455    196
>         IQ5KG-6 5455    52
>         IQ8PQ-6 5455    166
>         IQ8RB-6 5455    166
>         IQ8XF 5455    249
>         IR2UGI-5 5455    250
>         IR2UGI-6 5455    249
>         IR4FOC-6 5455    216
>         IR4U-6 5455    216
>         IT9FTP-6 5455    236
>         IT9OBK-6 5455    200
>         IV3BVK-5 5455    216
>         IW1QLH-6 5455    163
>         IW2EVH-6 5455    171
>         IW8PGT-9 5455    115
>         IW9FDD-6 5455    82
>         IW9HHF-8 5455    216
>         IZ0AWG-6 5455    115
>         IZ0ORT-6 5455    216
>         IZ5IIN-6 5455    190
>         IZ5ILU-6 5455    198
>         IZ6RND-6 5455
>         IZ8DMZ-6 5455    171
>         JH1RFM-9 5455    216
>         K0PIR-2 5455    181
>         K2LS 5455    82
>         K4JW 5455    65
>         K4KYD 5455    249
>         K4KYD-2 5455    249
>         K8QIK-3 5455    80
>         KB2FAF-12 5455    249
>         KB8UVN-2 5455    73
>         KC5PQX-9 5455    249
>         KC9AOP-1 5455    229
>         KG4OOL-2 5455    249
>         KY9J-2 5455    216
>         LZ0DXC 5455    249
>         M0KGX-3 5455    217
>         MX0ONL 5455    115
>         N4DW-9 5455    166
>         N8NM 5455    249
>         N9KT-2 5455    229
>         NA7KR-3 5455    250
>         NL7S 5455    250
>         NP3N 5455    203
>         NR0Q-2 5455    217
>         NR1X-3 5455    166
>         OH1RCF 5455    250
>         OK0DXI 5455    52
>         OK2CQR-1 5455    250
>         ON0LLV-5 5455    249
>         ON3URE-2 5455    216
>         ON4KST-2 5455    216
>         PD0SIM-2 5455
>         PY1TSP-1 5455    197
>         PY2ZEN-6 5455    250
>         PY4OG-2 5455    229
>         SK6AW-2 5455    166
>         SM4ONW-14 5455    218
>         SM6EAT-6 5455    249
>         SM6HOC-14 5455    218
>         SM6HOC-2 5455    218
>         SM6HOC-6 5455    218
>         SM6YOU-2 5455    82
>         SM6YOU-4 5455    166
>         SM6YOU-7 5455    82
>         SR2PUT 5455    197
>         SR4DXC 5455    198
>         SR9DDF-12 5455    200
>         SV2HRT-1 5455    115
>         SV5BYR-7 5455    217
>         UA4CC 5455    115
>         VA3MW-7 5455    249
>         VE1CFB 5455    38
>         VE2PKT-9 5455    166
>         VE3MIS-2 5455    210
>         VE3XPG-3 5455
>         VE6DXC 5455    100
>         VK3HRA-2 5455    185
>         W1DX-2 5455    82
>         W1NR 5455    250
>         W1NR-9 5455    250
>         W6RFU 5455    216
>         W6RGG-2 5455    89
>         W9AEK 5455    158
>         WT3Q 5455    136
>         WW1R-9 5455    82
>         YO2LOJ-2 5455
>
>         73 de Kin EA3CV
>
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