[Dxspider-support] You are killing all Webclusters!

[Tony K1AX]

Hi Tobias,

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I understand the concerns of some web cluster operators regarding the impact of $DXProt::sendverify = 2, though my experience has been quite different.

I recently launched my own web cluster, DX Data (https://dxdata.io), and while I recognize the challenges you’ve outlined, not all web clusters appear to be affected in the same way. My web cluster continues to function as expected, and spots from my users are still being picked up by DXSpider, CC Cluster, and most web clusters, including yours. I’d be happy to compare notes at some point to better understand why some web clusters are experiencing issues while others, like mine, remain unaffected.


73,
Tony K1AX


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Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 7:21 PM
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Cc: Tobias Wellnitz <tobias.wellnitz at gmail.com>
Subject: [Dxspider-support] You are killing all Webclusters!

Hi all,

my apologies for the slightly provocative email subject, but in the name of all Web Cluster operators I would like to express our strong concerns and disagreement about the recently rolled out "source" verification of DX Spots! This setting does more harm than good. Literally all spots submitted through web clusters are been dropped since the roleout of $DXProt::sendverify = 2.
Why? Because web clusters manage their users and their accounts in the web stack and not in dxspider.

Just to give you an idea about the magnitude: Only my web cluster (dxheat.com<http://dxheat.com>) has >30.000 registered users and has at any time 800 - 1500 connected users. I know that Dxfun and Dxwatch are serving even larger user bases!

Look at Andrea's table of dropped spots within a day:

+-------+----------+
| SPOTS | NODE     |
+-------+----------+
|   502 | EA4RCH-5 |
|   411 | VE7CC-1  |
|   273 | DH1TW-2  |
|   208 | AE5E     |
|   138 | PY1NB-4  |
|   104 | EA6VQ-2  |
|   103 | DO5SSB-2 |
[...]

Here is the mapping:

EA4RCH-5 -> dxfun.com<http://dxfun.com>
DH1TW-2 -> dxheat.com<http://dxheat.com>
PY1NB-4 -> dxwatch.com<http://dxwatch.com>
EA6VQ-2 -> dxmaps.com<http://dxmaps.com>
DO5SSB-2 -> qrzcq.com/dxtron<http://qrzcq.com/dxtron>

As you can imagine, we have put a lot of effort into building and operating these web clusters. The total number of affected users, which participate in the dx cluster network through our web services is larger than the overall users connected via telnet!

We therefore kindly ask you to reconsider and undo the recent changes!

Let jointly keep on discussing other possibilities on how to further harden together our DX Cluster network!

Thanks & 73,
Tobias, DH1TW
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