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

[Keith, G6NHU]

Sorry Dirk, for some reason I’ve stopped getting list emails through.  I’ve just been onto the list archive and seen loads of message I’ve not received.  They’ve not gone into spam, they’re just not here.  I’ve signed up with another email address to see if that works any better but after years, it’s odd.

Anyway. 73 Keith

This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for arm-linux-gnueabihf-thread-multi-64int


73 Keith

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What version of perl are you running?

$ perl -v

will tell you.

Dirk

On 11 Feb 2025 at 08:34 +0000, Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
> 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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