<div dir="ltr">I can see how traffic management could be an issue.  I've had several folks connecting from out of state and just (for lack of a better term) "lurking" because we can be pretty entertaining at times.  I put up the radio reference feed to help alleviate some of that, I think its working.<div>
<br></div><div>73 de K0JSC</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:28 AM, David Osborn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.osborn@manx.net" target="_blank">david.osborn@manx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The duuuude has spoken – gulp.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There isn’t a problem with interference or naughtiness, just one of traffic management. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">However, I will abide by the rules and stop trying to break things.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’ll go and stand in the corner for a while.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jim Duuuude [mailto:<a href="mailto:telesistant@hotmail.com" target="_blank">telesistant@hotmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 August 2013 18:22<br><b>To:</b> David Osborn; Bryan D. Boyle<br><b>Cc:</b> app_rpt mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [App_rpt-users] Node Blocking<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It is the policy of Allstar Link to require *ALL* Allstar nodes to accept connections from<br>
and allow connections to *ALL* Allstar nodes. PERIOD.<br><br>If someone's node is somehow causing you interference or problems, you are intended<br>to make an "official" complaint, and it *WILL* be dealt with.<br>
<br>Jim WB6NIL<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From: <a href="mailto:david.osborn@manx.net" target="_blank">david.osborn@manx.net</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:bdboyle@bdboyle.com" target="_blank">bdboyle@bdboyle.com</a><br>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:47:37 +0100<br>CC: <a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" target="_blank">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Node Blocking<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Interesting idea.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’ve done a bit of AWK’ing in the past to parse out stats from the log of who connected when and how many times, but I’ve slept since then and will have to learn it all over again </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I guess that this will need to run regularly (cron?) in order to prevent a newly downloaded node list from unblocking the user.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’ll look further at that. Thanks</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Bryan D. Boyle [<a href="mailto:bdboyle@bdboyle.com" target="_blank">mailto:bdboyle@bdboyle.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 August 2013 17:41<br><b>To:</b> David Osborn<br><b>Cc:</b> <<a href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" target="_blank">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [App_rpt-users] Node Blocking</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">write an awk (or PERL or ?) script to grok through the nodelist that gets downloaded on a regular basis and remove the node in question.  <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">that will, in essence, prevent the node from being listed as a valid node and prevent connection.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I assume you are talking about allstar nodes vs individual users via the web transceiver...<br>
<br>--<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bryan<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Sent from my iPhone 5...small<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">keyboard, big fingers...please<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">forgive misspellings...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>On Aug 30, 2013, at 12:06, "David Osborn" <<a href="mailto:david.osborn@manx.net" target="_blank">david.osborn@manx.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi Group,<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’m convinced I’ve seen talk of this before, but having trawled the archives, I’m darned if I can find it.<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"">Is there a method of blocking specific AllStar nodes from connecting? I know we’re all friends here and wouldn’t dream of being unpleasant to each other, but there are occasions when it may be necessary to temporarily stop another node from linking. How would this be achieved?<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"">Thanks<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"">David<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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