[Dxspider-support] Downloads

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Collecting "bad ip" data from the community is NOT a good idea. It may 
be exploited by bad actors and flooded with good IP addresses. Then you 
also have to consider how to maintain it by purging older ones and also 
invalid ones as well.

Mike, W1NR

On 3/12/2023 5:55 PM, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Create_master_badip_file.pl is the program I use to obtain the date to 
> create the badip.torexit and .torrelay files. The site from which this 
> data is derived requests that large numbers of people to do not connect 
> to the site for bandwidth (and I suspect cost) reasons. They suggest 
> that we do as we are and have a few sites that obtain, process and then 
> distribute the result to our community.
> 
> One of the things I need to sort out are 2-4 backup sites that can that 
> program and then redistribute it (independently) from GB7DJK, via a web 
> download site. I am getting to an age where I could, after all, drop 
> dead tomorrow or  be run over by a bus.
> 
> I also have to devise a system to merge badip.local files into one or 
> more copies of badip.global, so that that too can be managed by the 
> community rather than just me. I feel an 'upload' command coming on :-)
> 
> But it appears I have still got some more firefighting to do first...
> 
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>