<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Kin,</div><div><br></div><div>I tried with different SSIDs when I found out that the cluster network doesn't allow the same callsign to be connected to more than 3 nodes at the same time; then, when I realised that some nodes rejected SSIDs > 10, I moved to changing the call area as well (using callsigns that are not assigned to any Italian ham operator - no one will have my same callsign with just a different number).</div><div><br></div><div>            std::string mycall = "IU" + std::to_string(sock % 9) + "AZC-" + std::to_string(sock / 9);<br></div><div><br></div><div>I apologise for the trouble I created. As you can see, I only received data and I didn't submit any spots - also I used variations of my own callsign rather than generating random ones.</div><div>As the experiment was very enlightening and enjoyable for the few hours while I was connected to more than half of the nodes of the network at the same time, I'm a bit tempted by setting up a node myself that will achieve a similar function (being connected to as many nodes as possible and receive spots from them, allowing me to compare the latency and the presence or absence of them in various parts of the network).</div><div>I might be able to start something in Telehouse East <a href="https://www.telehouse.net/data-centre-services/uk/london/telehouse-east/">https://www.telehouse.net/data-centre-services/uk/london/telehouse-east/</a> or a similar level datacenter, with IPv4 + IPv6 connectivity of course.</div><div><br></div><div>Are people on this mailing list open to peering requests?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>73 de IU4AZC Enrico</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mar 4 feb 2025 alle ore 07:57 Kin via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1392860332789614026"><div lang="ES" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_1392860332789614026WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keith,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">don't</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">doubt</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">what</span> IU4AZC <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">says</span>, <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">but</span> I <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">don't</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">think</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">it</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">answers</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">what</span> he <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">actually</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">did</span>. The 3 <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">connections</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">max</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">thing</span>, he <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">skipped</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">it</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">when</span> he <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">used</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">SSIDs</span>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Anyway</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">it's</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">just</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">what</span> I <span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE">see</span>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>13 IU0AZC-2<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU3AZC-20<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU4AZC-1<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>15 IU4AZC-14<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>28 IU4AZC-2<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>30 IU4AZC-3<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>31 IU4AZC-4<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>29 IU4AZC-5<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>28 IU4AZC-6<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU4AZC-7<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU4AZC-8<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>16 IU5AZC-10<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU5AZC-20<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>30 IU6AZC<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU6AZC-1<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>13 IU7AZC-34<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>16 IU8AZC<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_1392860332789614026SpellE"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regards</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kin EA3CV<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">De:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk</a>> <b>En nombre de </b>Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support<br><b>Enviado el:</b> lunes, 3 de febrero de 2025 20:17<br><b>Para:</b> The DXSpider Support list <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>><br><b>CC:</b> Keith, G6NHU <<a href="mailto:g6nhu@me.com" target="_blank">g6nhu@me.com</a>><br><b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Bad IP<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div name="messageBodySection"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">OK, he says he was doing that because he was trying to get around the three connection limit.  In his defence, he’s said that the last three letters of Italian callsigns are unique and are never reused with different prefix numbers so he’s never been using someone else’s callsign.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">He’s been doing some tests to see how different clusters vary between them compared to the ones where spots are uploaded the most, to see how they handle traffic and if some spots don’t traverse the entire network.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">He’s assured me that from now, he won’t make any more than three connections in at the same time and will only use IU4AZC..I think that’s fair.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">73 Keith G6NHU </span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div name="messageReplySection"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>On 3 Feb 2025 at 13:13 +0000, Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>>, wrote:<br><u></u><br><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:3.75pt"><div name="messageBodySection"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span>OK, I was checking files up to 031.dat and all I saw was IU4AZC, I see different callsigns after that.  I will ask him.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div name="messageReplySection"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>On 3 Feb 2025 at 12:27 +0000, Kin <<a href="mailto:ea3cv@cronux.net" target="_blank">ea3cv@cronux.net</a>>, wrote:<br><u></u><br><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:3.75pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">No, look <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">what</span> I <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">see</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">when</span> I <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">select</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">your</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">node</span>. <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">This</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">indicates</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">all</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">the</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">callsigns</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">you</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">have</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">reported</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">that</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">have</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">connected</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">to</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">your</span> <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">node</span>:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">grep "PC92\^G6NHU-2" 032.dat | grep -E "A\^\^1(IU[0-9]AZC)" | sed -E 's<span class="m_1392860332789614026grame">/.*</span>A\^\^1(IU[0-9]AZC).*/\1/' | <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">sort</span> | <span class="m_1392860332789614026spelle">uniq</span> -c</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>13 IU0AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>14 IU3AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>    </span>103 IU4AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>30 IU5AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>44 IU6AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>13 IU7AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>     </span>16 IU8AZC</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kin</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">De:</span></b> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keith, G6NHU <<a href="mailto:g6nhu@me.com" target="_blank">g6nhu@me.com</a>><br><b>Enviado el:</b> lunes, 3 de febrero de 2025 11:53<br><b>Para:</b> <a href="mailto:ea3cv@cronux.net" target="_blank">ea3cv@cronux.net</a><br><b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Bad IP</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div name="messageBodySection"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I’m only seeing connections here from IU4AZC (with different SSIDs) and I’m fine with that.<br><br>73 Keith G6NHU</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div name="messageReplySection"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>On 3 Feb 2025 at 10:09 +0000, <a href="mailto:ea3cv@cronux.net" target="_blank">ea3cv@cronux.net</a>, wrote:<br><u></u><br><u></u></span><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:3.75pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hi,</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I think it must still be blocked because it is identifying itself with several different callsigns.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Just do:</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>grep -E "(IU\dAZC)" spider/local_data/debug/2025/033.dat</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Kin EA3CV</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div id="m_1392860332789614026ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Enviado desde <a href="https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg" target="_blank">Outlook para Android</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div id="m_1392860332789614026mail-editor-reference-message-container"><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span><hr size="2" width="98%" align="center"></span></div><div id="m_1392860332789614026divRplyFwdMsg"><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">De:</span></strong> <span style="font-size:11pt">Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk</a>> en nombre de Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>><br><strong><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Enviado:</span></strong> lunes, febrero 3, 2025 10:38:45 a. m.<br><strong><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Para:</span></strong> The DXSpider Support list <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>><br><strong><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">CC:</span></strong> Keith, G6NHU <<a href="mailto:g6nhu@me.com" target="_blank">g6nhu@me.com</a>><br><strong><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Asunto:</span></strong> Re: [Dxspider-support] Bad IP</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p><div name="messageBodySection"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I did this yesterday and have just received an email.<br><br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">I’ve removed his IP from my bad list now.<br><br>73 Keith G6NHU <br><br></span><em><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">"I'm Enrico IU4AZC and I'm a ham radio operator with a recent interest in understanding the behaviour of the DX Cluster network.</span></em><span><br><em><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">To grab a few statistics, I've created a basic software that opens a TCP connection to a few nodes and stores the received spots in a database. I've noticed that in the past hours your node started rejecting my connection and I suspect it's because some bug in my code made it behave in some "abusive" way. If that's the case, I apologise and I don't ask you to remove my ip from the blacklist sooner than the usual policy - I'll wait and use other clusters in the meantime.</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">But if it's not the case (maybe your software does a GeoIP lookup and the location doesn't match? I moved to London a few years ago), may I ask you to check in the logs the reason of my connections being rejected?</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">I'm currently connecting over IPv4 from 140.228.74.170."</span></em></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div name="messageReplySection"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>On 1 Feb 2025 at 20:37 +0000, Kin via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>>, wrote:<br><u></u><br><u></u></span><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:3.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hi,<br><br>This IP 140.228.74.170 is being used to try to access different nodes on the<br>network, using different callsigns, with different SSIDs.<br>That pattern: IUxAZC-x<br>Advised: set/badip 140.228.74.170<br><br>Kin<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dxspider-support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>_______________________________________________<br>Dxspider-support mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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