The new portal sounds good. I know any
DNS entries in my 44.136/24 allocation are out of date, and carry
over from the previous holder of that allocation. Having control
of my DNS would allow me to make appropriate updates.
Hi David,
Hey Chris,
I would urge you to get in touch and work with me to
correct this. The bottom line is - if it’s not in the
portal database, it’s free for assignment elsewhere.
This is
not the case. I also have examples in my 44.4.0.0/16
subnet of active user allocations that existed before the
portal was created. I have been reaching out to those
users who have DNS entries but don't have portal entries
to clarify the situation and try to get them to request to
make a portal request for their previous allocation. This
can be very difficult at time as people don't have email
addresses in qrz.com or
finding an email address via the Internet.
Putting it
another way, I consider an IP/subnet to be either "in use"
or "under review" if there is a DNS entry but nothing in
the AMPR portal.
It is most certainly the case that there are many entries in
DNS that do not have corresponding entries in the portal.
However, the whole point of the portal was to have a way to
manage the assignments. One of Brian Kantor’s main problems was
not knowing when someone no longer required an assignment - if
they lose interest, they tend not to bother letting anyone know
and if the worst happens and they go SK then they clearly can’t
let us know.
Brian’s decision was to have a cut off date of a year after
the portal came online - if the end user hadn’t got in touch to
claim their entry by then, the entry was considered not
required. This 12 month period has long since expired (by over 8
years!) so if there is anyone that hasn’t claimed their
assignment after over 8 years it is highly unlikely they will do
so now, and if they do then they can always have it re-assigned.
Incidentally this is the reason behind the portal removing
accounts (and assignments) after 12 months of not seeing the
user logging in.
For anyone that is interested - the portal did originally
have DNS management built in (actually it still does, it’s just
disabled). Unfortunately there was no easy way of matching up
DNS entries with accounts on the portal. Brian was still working
on the best way to import and match the data when he left us.
The new portal will have DNS management live from the start
(end users will be able to manage their own entries), building
on Brian’s work we’ve figured out how to match up the majority
of the wanted DNS entries, but when the new portal does
eventually go live, there will be a window of opportunity
(probably 12 months) during which folk will be able to claim
their entries, after which they will be disabled (removed from
the zonefile), at that point if anyone complains things have
stopped working their entries can be re-enabled and assigned to
their account. After a further period (probably another 12
months) the disabled entries will be removed.
We have literally thousands of DNS entries, my best guess is
over 60% of them are redundant, it really does need cleaning up!
So I re-iterate my request to get in touch if anyone knows of
any ARDC address space that is being used that is not registered
on the portal. I am more than happy to work with anyone that
needs to import assignments into the portal without having to go
through the formal request/approve process.
73,
Chris - G1FEF
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