7 Feb
2016
7 Feb
'16
3:14 p.m.
+1
On February 7, 2016 3:12:11 PM EST, K7VE - John <k7ve(a)k7ve.org> wrote:
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>People -- we need the cleanup. I say, be aggressive. If an active DNS
>record gets deleted, just recreate it -- Sheesh.
>
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>On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Rob Janssen <pe1chl(a)amsat.org> wrote:
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>> (Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
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>>
>>> What would you have me do? It's clear that the majority of the
>entries in
>>> the DNS are bogus. We have NOTHING to reference except the portal
>data.
>>> Doesn't it make sense to try to get that data in order?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but as I mentioned many times before, there is no sane way of
>> migrating the
>> data that *is* still valid towards the portal. There is no clear way
>for
>> the user
>> to request their existing allocation to be loaded into the portal.
>Not
>> automatically
>> (e.g. by querying the DNS), not manually (by filling in a form with
>> existing addresses).
>>
>> One can only ask for new allocations and place a comment that says in
>fact
>> one wants
>> to move an existing allocation. I cannot ask the users to do that,
>and I
>> don't
>> like to edit all those requests manually. I think the portal should
>> facilitate
>> migration of existing data at least until that process is completed.
>> There should also be procedures to migrate large blocks of data, as
>our
>> own network
>> infrastructure has hundreds of hosts that I do not want to enter in a
>> webform one by
>> one!
>>
>> I have recovered all update mail messages sent to the portal after
>> 1994-01-01 and
>> have added a date stamp to all the lines in my own hosts file with
>the
>> latest
>> date of an addition of data for each callsign.
>> The file is available at http://pe1chl.nl.eu.org/hosts/hosts.137
>>
>> Today I have done another mailing and a local amateur radio newssite
>has
>> placed
>> it on their newspage. This time I requested all the users that want
>to
>> *keep* their
>> allocation to reply by mail.
>>
>> When I get a reply or make a new registration I update the stamp to
>the
>> current date.
>> Next month I will just delete all records with a date before 2010.
>> That should get rid of all the records from "the old days" and only
>leave
>> those that
>> were added during our more recent experiments. Last time I did this
>(two
>> years ago)
>> I kept the records for those that I could not reach, but this time
>those
>> will get
>> deleted. (of course they can always request to get them back when
>they
>> notice it)
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
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