[Dxspider-support] Some network data

[Howard Leadmon]

   Hello Dirk,

  I think your in a similar situation, so maybe not even an issue. That 
said, if I can ever support any of the efforts with storage, hosting, or 
DNS, it's simple to do..


73's..

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Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

On 2/20/2023 6:17 PM, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Even older versions will stop set/badnode, plain badword and some 
> regex based badword traffic.
>
> Newer nodes will layer on the newer stuff, such as badip, regex 
> badwords etc. The result of this is that only persons that pop just 
> for contests and also randomise their IP addresses that seem to be a 
> problem. We had one this weekend. He managed ~20 spots over a fairly 
> short period of time on two (very different) IP addresses.
>
> Any of node will drop stuff it knows is bad. The problem is that there 
> is (now) only the central list of bad ip addresses. Reluctant as I am 
> to say this but, in order to get better overall coverage,  we probably 
> now need  central  badword, bad node and maybe baddx lists (although I 
> see very little usage of set/baddx (maybe I should get out less? :-) 
> distributed from a central point in the same way as the badip stuff.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 20/02/2023 19:53, Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/20/2023 2:16 PM, Kin via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>
>>> I think that the execution of the lock request is not being so 
>>> traumatic. It is clear who has not participated in any way.
>>>
>>> I ask you, what do you think the next step should be?
>>>
>>> Kin EA3CV
>>
>> Dirk may clarify this but if an outdated node has one link to an 
>> updated node, any bad spots originating from that old node should get 
>> dropped by the updated partner's filtering and not propagate any 
>> further. Correct?
>>
>> I still say that blindly disconnecting and locking out older nodes is 
>> an authoritarian sledgehammer approach and really isn't necessary if 
>> the majority are up to date.
>>
>> Also, 3 of my partner nodes who were on your block list whom you 
>> claim could not be contacted were contacted directly by me and were 
>> unaware of this whole thing.
>>
>> Let's now just stop and observe how and if what we have is working.
>>
>> Mike, W1NR
>>
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