[Dxspider-support] Bads IPs address ???

[Martin Davies G0HDB]

On 23 Mar 2025 at 10:03, Kin via Dxspider-support wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We can see that there are still nodes (pc9x) that have their IP address
> incorrectly defined:
...
> PC92^GB7DXC-5^60601.01^K^5GB7DXC-5:5457:568^2^11^localhost^H94^
...

> I think they should fix this to avoid the possibility of losing spots.
> Kin EA3CV

Hello Kin (and group, especially Dirk), thanks for all the hard work you do.

I was slightly surprised and disappointed to see that my GB7DXC-5 node (running build 568) 
had for the first time appeared in your list of 'naughty nodes', but I believe I have now taken 
the steps necessary to correct the problem.

>From the sysop console I've just done the two 'set/var' commands, as per the message from 
Dirk on 20th March, to set $main::localhost_alias_ipv4 and @main::localhost_names and I've 
added the two commands into the startup script.

I haven't yet done the set/var command for localhost_alias_ipv6 because I don't yet know 
what the IPv6 address is for the Raspberry Pi that's hosting the node, and I'm not currently 
using IPv6 on my LAN.

I haven't bothered adding Kin's 'update_ip' utility into my crontab because I've got a static 
Internet IP address and the internal IP address of the R-Pi on my LAN is also fixed.

73,
-- 
Martin Davies G0HDB, GB7DXC-5 sysop
marting0hdb at gmail.com


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