On 7/15/12 9:20 PM, Kirk wrote:

I turned that off on my nodes due to too many. Braindead nose pickers. All it takes are a few of them to spoil something good

Agreed. What I did: 1. Turned off, on the mother ship, access via the web transceiver to ALL my publicly linked nodes: 144/220/440/900/audio console/hub (I have a commercial radio station broadcast console hooked into a URI to enable me to run nets from a decent op position...complete with a blinking "On Air" light over the door to my shack...:) Hokey, I know...). Then...since I want to be able to get into my system from elsewhere ...just in case... 2. Left the access enabled on a node which is registered to another system which I take care of, but is not actually hooked up to a radio at this point (It's running the pseudo driver). Also pointed my Echolink config to that node number. So...I still have an entre' into the system, but, it's a) not full-time connected to my cluster (which is also connected to another hub) and b) changed the connect/disconnect *Xnodenumber sequence to make it more arcane. Voila! The Dain Bramaged drive-bys still can drive by...but, in essence, when the 'dummy" node is disconnected (which is most if not all of the time unless I need to come in via the wireline network)...don't even know they're there, nor is there any radio for them to key up, but, if I need to put up echolink during a net...I can connect that node up to enable access. I know that's not what it was formally intended for...but, there seems to be just so many annoying, inconsiderate operators out there these days. Must be the summer vacation...or the result of no-code licenses (***ducking*** and putting on the asbestos jockey shorts and cast iron cup...) More than one way to solve the problem. Was talking to a fellow system operator in the net I'm on...another option would be to somehow have a password access intercept that could be configured on the web transceiver...much like the old access codes we had to punch in back in the day for autopatch access on most machines...but that's another issue. This doesn't solve the issue of drive-bys on other nodes in our network (and I know my fellow ops in that net are on this list...), but, at least I'm not contributing to the excess noise in the linked network by exposing my systems full time.

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