[Dxspider-support] You are killing all Webclusters!

[Mikel EA2CW]

Hello "listers",

After reading these last interesting posts sent to the list this 
morning, I would want to play the "devil's defense attorney" role 
(spanish expression), mainly about the mentioned "whitelist" proposal.

Every time a post arrives to a node, it must be checked against several 
conditions -even before starting the answer to each of the connected 
users, based on their own filters.

This is node time consuming, even before giving permission to EVERY SPOT 
to pass. And we should add another condition checker more.

To have this "whitelist" protocol running, Dirk will have to write the 
code, and then the about 400 existing nodes running dxspider install the 
new version.

First problem. Kin, f.i. has been trying for years to give us 
information about nodes running obsolete versions, trying to compell the 
sysops to update with few success. Why would we think that now will be 
better?

Or from another point of view, to solve the problem presented by no more 
than ten nodes (webclusters), which do not follow the comms protocol, 
protocol which has been already written and running, will we have to 
rewrite the code and modify almost 400 nodes? Doesn't seem very logical, 
does it?

So, to resume all it:

1. About Time: The "user connected to node" protocol should be be 
executed ONCE per node (remember, no more than 10) per user. Then all 
the spots from him/her can be sent.
The "whitelist" should be run at EACH spot arrival at EVERY receiving 
node (around 400).

2. About work to do: The "user connected to node" is already written and 
every node -except the webcluster nodes- follows it. The "whitelist" 
should be written and installed.

Even more, as far as I know, almost all these webclusters are running 
DXSPIDER!!! -sometimes not the last version. What should be, so, the 
problem to make the same things that we all the rest are doing?

By the way, seems evident from the numbers that the amount of connected 
users is not related to the number of spots sent. That's logic, in the 
middle of a contest, I will not stop operating to access a web page to 
send a spot if my soft can do it times faster.

73 de Mikel, playing Devil's lawyer

 From Bilbao, Basque Country

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