[Dxspider-support] Hamclock connections

[Stephen Carroll]

David,

Thanks for your input and concerns. From my perspective, I have minimized
the impact of Hamclock on my own cluster node... when discovered, I block
them. They are free to connect to someone else's mega-cluster that has
unlimited bandwidth... just not mine!

73, Steve - AA4U




On Fri, Mar 3, 2023, 2:03 AM David Spoelstra via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Perhaps we could even come up with a "best practices" document for other
> software writers that will eventually (as we have seen several times in the
> past) want to connect some kind of automated software to our systems?
> -David, N9KT
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:52 AM David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I believe he says, "and cranking up the timeout to 5 minutes". So
>> wouldn't that mean he calls it every 5 minutes and not every 15 seconds?
>>
>> Regardless, he's obviously willing to change his code to minimize
>> the impact to our systems. He's obviously also not a DX Spider expert. So,
>> he asked a question of the people that are supposed to know our systems the
>> best - us - and all we do is ridicule his guesses of what he should do? How
>> about instead someone who really understands the DX Spider code works with
>> him to modify his code for least impact?
>>
>> Obviously even we're not sure of the answers. I saw a comment from our
>> own group about timeouts and I saw Mike mention that "firewall/routers
>> running NAT will sometimes expire or otherwise lose NAT connection" so I'm
>> not even sure we know how to help him.
>>
>> So again, how about we approach this from the positive side and work with
>> him to minimize the impact of HamClock on our systems instead of walling
>> them off?
>>
>> -David, N9KT
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 12:03 AM Iain Philipps via Dxspider-support <
>> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    - Timeout... let me wrap my head around this latest suggestion. So,
>>>    instead of sending "set/qra" every 15 seconds, his solution is sending
>>>    "show/date" every 15 seconds instead? Am I reading that correctly?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You are [unfortunately] reading that correctly …
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 de WR3D
>>>
>>>
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