<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On a related note, did anyone see this?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike, WA9PIE</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">From: </span><a href="mailto:CC-User@groups.io" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">CC-User@groups.io</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> [mailto:</span><a href="mailto:CC-User@groups.io" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">CC-User@groups.io</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">] On Behalf Of Lee Sawkins via </span><a href="http://groups.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">groups.io</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2025 10:25 AM</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">To: </span><a href="mailto:CC-User@groups.io" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">CC-User@groups.io</a><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Re: [CC-User] Bogus DX Spot Attacks on Clusters</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What happened this weekend was that tens of thousands of bogus spots were entered into the cluster system. These spots were all for SSB. Since there are no SSB skimmers available yet, all of these spots appeared to be manually entered, but in fact they were generated by a computer.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Normally the human entered spots never are more than 60 per minute. During the weekend spots that were bogus were entered at many thousands per minute. These spots were targeting specific active calls. These spots were giving different frequencies on all contest bands for each bogus spot. These spots had same DX call and a different spotter call and different originating cluster call. This caused many nodes to get bogged down trying to process all this data. Some crashed. Others got hopelessly behind and continued sending data to my cluster which dropped the spots because they were too old. Millions of spots were being dropped.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">My cluster limits the number of spots to 60 per minute. This limited bogus spots but also good spots in each minute. When bogus spots stopped, then all the new good ones got through.</span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Lee VE7CC</span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM Kin via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<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="msg2951771298094834335"><div lang="ES" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_2951771298094834335WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_2951771298094834335SpellE"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Absolutely</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <span class="m_2951771298094834335SpellE">brilliant</span> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">🤣🤣🤣<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">Kin EA3CV</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><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>Danilo Brelih via Dxspider-support<br><b>Enviado el:</b> lunes, 31 de marzo de 2025 22:47<br><b>Para:</b> Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>><br><b>CC:</b> Danilo Brelih <<a href="mailto:s50u@s50e.si" target="_blank">s50u@s50e.si</a>><br><b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Weekend data<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p>…<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span class="m_2951771298094834335SpellE">This</span> <span class="m_2951771298094834335SpellE">is</span> Linux <span class="m_2951771298094834335SpellE">land</span>.<br>In silent nights you can hear the Windows machines rebooting.<br><a href="https://s50clx.infrax.si" target="_blank">https://s50clx.infrax.si</a><u></u><u></u></p><p>GL Dan<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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