[Dxspider-support] Massive reduction in users following router reboot (and DXUtil.pm error)

[Keith, G6NHU]

A few months ago, I set up a scheduled reboot of my internet router at 05:25 every Tuesday morning.  It’s been absolutely fine, within seconds of the connection coming back up, my user count has gone back to where it was before (around 850 users).

Two weeks ago, when the router restarted after the last round of Spider updates, only around 650 users connected straight back on and for the last week, my user count has been pretty stable.

This morning, I only have 450 users after the reboot.

I also notice that when anyone connects, I have this error in the debug file:

1739261870^(chan) <- A G4UDU telnet
1739261870^(chan) -> D G4UDU Hello Phil, this is G6NHU-2 in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex
1739261870^(chan) -> D G4UDU running DXSpider V1.57 build 564
1739261870^(chan) -> D G4UDU Capabilities: ve7cc rbn
1739261870^(state) G4UDU channel func  state 0 -> prompt
1739261870^(DXCommand) G4UDU connected from 80.229.221.76 cols 80
1739261870^(chan) -> D G4UDU ****************************************************************
1739261870^(*) Argument " " isn't numeric in int at /spider/perl/DXUtil.pm line 616.
1739261870^(*)  at /spider/perl/DXUtil.pm line 616.
1739261870^(progress) CMD: 'show/cluster ' by G4UDU ip: 80.229.221.76 1mS
1739261870^(chan) -> D G4UDU Nodes: 31/388 Users [Loc/Clr]: 452/3875 Max: 793/6611 - Uptime:  6d 12h 8m
1739261870^(chan) -> D G4UDU G4UDU de G6NHU-2 11-Feb-2025 0817Z dxspider >


I have no idea why a huge number of users aren’t able to reconnect after a router restart.  The only changes here are the dxspider updates and there’s been about three or four updates in this time.

Dirk, if you see this, is there anything that’s changed within dxspider that could be causing this?  I’m not restarting the node, simply rebooting the internet router but as you can see from the attached screenshot, I literally have 200 fewer users after each reboot.

73 Keith

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