But de facto is that those spots shown were put from the listed
ip-number. Eg. several US stations spoting from same ip which is
allocated to the country of spotted DX-station, coincidence?
It's impossible to determine this from the information available to us.
Of course spots with a bogus call does not itself necessary mean
self-spotting. I have myself been "a victim" of this at least in one
occasion. But with the bogus calls from DX-station's region is more
likely selfspotting.
The packet cluster network needs to be redesigned as an authenticated
service. End-user authentication makes spoofing and self-spotting much
more difficult, and also prevents non-amateurs from injecting traffic
that ends up going out over the air. Transport layer (i.e. node-to-node)
authentication prevents rogue nodes (e.g., those that don't implement
end-user authentication) from connecting to the network.
The same applies to the many "telnet" gateways that let anyone on the
internet initiate over-the-air connections.
--lyndon
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