<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I don't mean to be a jerk. I don't want to prove that I am right and everyone is wrong. I truly mean well, which may not come across over email.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The elephant in the room question is: how are you going to ensure that <b>ALL NODES</b>, first, second, third, etc. level, use passwords to connect to each other? And to make it easier to answer, let's assume that we are only focusing on the <b>511 spiders</b>. Keeping bad guys out of the network requires <b>ALL NODES</b> to use passwords for peering. If sysops don't bother running the most current version of DXS, why would they bother implementing passwords?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I will honor any request to disconnect, no questions asked.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Rudy N2WQ</div></div></body></html>