[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[Dirk Koopman]

And I am even gladder <sic>

Can we start to collect some data on errant programs that users "use"? I 
have discovered that a rather prominent contester appears to be using a 
program that, from time to time splurges out what appears to be a binary 
dump of a text window on his (Windows) machines. In 32/64 bit "wide 
characters". Perl just swallows it and DXSpider logs it (in html encoded 
form).  Fills up the logs (and disconnects the user) but otherwise is 
"harmless".

Dirk G1TLH

On 01/03/2023 22:24, Stephen Carroll via Dxspider-support wrote:
> I'm glad you brought this topic up. I have been planning to voice my 
> opinion. What you tolerate as a SysOp is completely up to your 
> individual threshold level. But, I have basically outlawed any user on 
> my nodes from connecting if using HamClock. At one point, I had 6 
> users running the software 24/7. I refer to this software as a 
> "resource hog" because of how much data it requests for every spot, 
> then resends the users Name, QTH and QRA every 15-30 seconds (which is 
> probably the default). I have a modest computer and cable modem setup 
> for the cluster and home network usage. If the connected user callsign 
> appears like this (AA4U), they are probably using HamClock. I will 
> usually ask the user to connect to a larger scale node, after 
> explaining why it's a resource hog.
>
> YMMV !!!
>
> 73, Steve - AA4U
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 3:59 PM Michael Walker via Dxspider-support 
> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>     Hi Guys
>
>     Since I am digging into a few things, one of my users was sending a
>
>     set/location about every 15 seconds
>
>     and then a show/heading for every spot.
>
>     It turns out it was HAMCLOCK which seems really chatty.
>
>     Mike va3mw
>
>
>
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