Tdoa lock out?
Today, I see in my users list an extraordinary entry for long winded TDoa activity, and I lean towards not supporting them……
As I recognise, the IPs are Russian, and the user may not be an amateur….
Are theese direct TDoa users rejected via the dowloadable blacklists we have (then this wide ip-range should perhaps be added?) or are other means appropriate?
73
Henrik
PS: I have now set “Allow GPS timestamp information
to be sent on the network?” to "No", as I understand all (good or bad) uses of TDoa is then off……
Comments
directTDoA is a legit TDoA frontend application that actually predates the TDoA extension work I did on the Kiwi. It uses similar TDoA backend code that Christoph developed. And it also uses kiwirecorder to connect to Kiwis to get the GPS timestamped data.
So the app itself is okay. Now the users of directTDoA is a separate matter. I don't understand why they'd have an hour of connect time though. Maybe that's part of its automated nature? Maybe it can do long term measurements to get more accurate results? (versus the one-shot stuff the Kiwi TDoA extension does)
Thank you JKS,
Do you add an appropriate IP-range to the downlodable blacklist please, to cut out these guys….then I can turn on GPS for legit users….and keep an eye out for reapperance?
Or how do we suggest/report additions to the downloadable common blacklist.
BR Henrik
I'm not going to add individual users to the global blacklist. You can add them to the local blacklist on your Kiwi on the admin network tab.
The global blacklist is reserved for known bots that use VPS hosting where large ranges of IPs can be identified. Individual users will generate too many entries. And the poor Beagle has increased overhead every time a blacklist entry is added.
So use the local list for your own particular situation. That's what it's there for.
Thank you JKS
right, I am indeed using the local for that, but my TDoa incident involved different russian IPs all starting with 213.87., so I thought they qualified, as I also trust they did not only use my Kiwisdr for their excercise, but your choice of cause….appreciate the Beagle has a tough master, but doing a splendid job….
BR
Henrik