[Dxspider-support] Repeating Announcements - Can anything be done?

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

On 25/10/10 20:01, Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
> On 25/10/10 09:46, Lee Sawkins wrote:
>> Hi Dirk
>>
>> How about this:
>>
>> a) Ignore incoming PC12 messages where the originating node is PC9x.
>> There are about 270 of these nodes.
>
> I have implemented this. It happens that quite a lot of the PC12s hit
> GB7DJK before the relevant PC93s, which does not help.
>
> I have also prevented PC93 being downgraded to PC12 in group mode
> because it appears that quite a lot of node software out there does not
> understand PC12 and groups.
>
> WHICH MAKES THIS AN IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!
>
>> b) Ignore incoming PC12 with a hops count of less than say H85
>
> I can't do this as I know that several of the nodes that connect to me
> have hop overrides active. Actually GB7DJK has a hop override.
>
> What I have done is increase the default dup age from 5 hours to 18 hours.
>
> Oh and I have also included the CTY-2009 prefix update.
>
> And there is a small bug fix on PC92 A records for outgoing node connects.
>
> PLEASE upgrade via git pull/cvs update A S A P
>

I forgot to mention that I have added a few commands:

* dbexport - export an AK1A database to a file
* dxsql_export - export the sh/dxsql data to a csv file
* dxsql_import - import (and update) the exported dxsql_export cvs data 
file.

Dirk