Yes, the real benefit of Allstar can also be a problem, being able to make multiple connections. Often when this happens it is unintentional. One way to limit connections is to not route your node publicly and not advertise its existence. You will be able to connect out but no one will be able to connect in to you. You determine who you want to connect to. Of course if everyone did that we would not have much of a network so unless you really want to make a node private that is not a good idea. If you go to the graphical map - http://stats.allstarlink.org/getstatus.cgi?XXXXX where XXXXX is replaced with your node you will see how things are connected. Often just dropping one offending link solves the problem. If someone is abusing there are ways to block IP addresses but hopefully you will not have to resort to that. 73 Doug WA3DSP http://www.crompton.com/hamradio From: ea8ee1@gmail.com Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:17:21 +0100 To: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: [App_rpt-users] nighmare in allstar today a nightmare when I look at my node 27684 someone connect a lot of nodes without permission 2397 2398 27010 27066 28175 28319 28449 28535 28564 28606 28656 28699 29042 29773 29990 3237 982 241 in echolink and IRLP 0572 0890 0562 and I think it's abuse of administrators to connect a network without consulting our repeater that I would like to investigate who makes this connection and will punish _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users To unsubscribe from this list please visit http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Enter your email address and press the "Unsubscribe or edit options button" You do not need a password to unsubscribe, you can do it via email confirmation. If you have trouble unsubscribing, please send a message to the list detailing the problem.