[aprssig] TH2THAPR-1 Server keeps sending messages?

[Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists]

I did a packet list on TH2THAPR-1 on both findU and jFindu with zero results.  Are the "messages" lines starting with # in your TCP display or are they actual APRS messages?  If the former, those are standard keep-alives.  If the latter, it sounds like either there is a non-javAPRSSrvr server in the Tier 2 rotate list or someone in the Tier 2 rotate list has made a mistake in their configuration.  The default for javAPRSSrvr is to block all of those types of messages.  They are generated by non-javAPRSSrvr software and were considered a nicety in the beginning of APRS-IS but became a major nuisance with the large number connections occurring on the net.  APRServe, aprsD, and AHub all generate these broadcast messages.

73,

Pete Loveall AE5PL
pete at ae5pl dot net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Garcia
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:27 AM
> To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> Subject: [aprssig] TH2THAPR-1 Server keeps sending messages?
>
> I have never seen this before in all the years I have been connecting
> the
> APRS-IS servers.
>
> This weekend I looked at my UI-View screen and it was full of messages
> from
> the TH2THAPR-1 server welcoming me to the CAT tower APRS-IS server I
> belive.
> Is this normal ? Did they just set up a Tier 2 server and enabled some
> feature to send out a message every time someone connects ? Considering