Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund

The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.

How to get your handles to resolve quickly.

  1. be sure to create your sitebndl.zip file with UDP disabled. When running "/dspace/bin/dspace make-handle-config", the script will ask the following:

    The Handle System can communicate via UDP and/or TCP sockets.

    Since UDP messages are blocked by many network firewalls, you may

    want to disable UDP services if you are behind such a firewall.

    Would you like to disable UDP services?(y/n) [n]: y

    Answer: y

  2. be sure to open ports 8000 and 2641 for all firewalls between you and the Global Handle Registry and Proxy Servers (hdl.handle.net). Likely this is both a host-based firewall, as well as a border firewall. The ports need to be open to the world.


For step 1, you can ask Handle Support to make this change to your prefix on your behalf. Ask nicely, they're good people.

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