[Skimmertalk] Skimmer and cluster node problems and changes

[K1TTT]

<rant>
Ok, I screwed up and didn't save the router settings to flash so the skimmer
port opened back up again when I rebooted the router.  It is gone for good
this time.  I did identify one of the bad connections, and causes for
others... EA5J-5 has been trying to connect for days and not getting a
connection, and he never will get a connection directly to a skimmer server
because he tries to login with the -5.  

NOTE FOR EVERYONE, if you are trying to connect to a skimmer server directly
YOU CAN NOT USE ANY SSID!!!!!

Others guilty of this: SV4FBB-2

And for the user 'BYE' from 86.140.44.236 I say goodbye forever... Whoever
you are you pretty much killed that direct service for the rest of the
world.  Now that I have the router properly flashed you may only get my
skimmer spots from the reverse beacon network.
</rant>

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: K1TTT [mailto:K1TTT at ARRL.NET] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 23:33
> To: skimmertalk at contesting.com; reflector cq-contest; 
> ar-cluster; YCCC (yccc at yccc.org); 'sysops at dxcluster.info'
> Subject: Skimmer and cluster node problems and changes
> 
> 
> Over the last several days my internet has been slow, my 
> skimmer server seemed to be slow, and when I would restart 
> the skimmer server it would instantly have 16 connections, 
> and its cpu load was a bit higher than usual... I finally 
> figured it out, I had a 29MB telnet log file for the last 
> month, most of which was in the last couple days, this file 
> is usually less than 1MB for several months.  There was 
> someone connecting and giving it the call 'BYE' or a blank 
> every few seconds... Since it is not easy to monitor that 
> connection, and the software is not really meant to be much 
> of a telnet server anyway, it is now no longer accessible 
> from outside.
> 
> My skimmer spots will still go to the reversebeacon network 
> and are available on that web site or via their load balanced 
> telnet servers at telnet.reversebeacon.net:7000.
> 
> I am also beta testing the ar-cluster version 6 code.  This 
> is a complete rewrite of the ar-cluster optimized for skimmer 
> speed spot processing and not much else so far... But it is 
> doing very good at spot processing.  Terry is working on some 
> new filtering capabilities that should make skimmer use much 
> nicer.  See links in info when connecting for filters and his 
> new client program also.  This node has the full feed of the 
> rbn plus my old node regular spots, plus a backup connection 
> direct to my skimmer in case the rbn is down.  It is at 
> k1ttt.net:7373.
> 
> Also for the last couple weeks on my regular cluster node I 
> have been summarily locking out anyone who I see repeatedly 
> connecting and disconnecting... So far no one has noticed.  
> If you are running a multiple-connect telnet client please 
> take me off your list of nodes unless you are watching the 
> connections, I have some locked out users who have been 
> trying to connect regularly for weeks now.  Eventually this 
> will get dumped in favor of the ar-cluster 6 node so I really 
> don't care since those will end up getting rejected by the 
> router, but you are wasting your bandwidth and mine.
> 
> 
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>  
>