[Dxspider-support] Downloads

[Iain Philipps]

Mike,

I understood Dirk to be saying he was to *distribute to* the community, rather than collect from ...


73 de WR3D

-----Original Message-----
From: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> On Behalf Of Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support
Sent: 13 March 2023 11:04
To: dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
Cc: Mike McCarthy, W1NR <lists at w1nr.net>
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Downloads

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
> 

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