[44net] Re: AMPR Portal Cut-over 1 Month Later

I am disappointed that the current system is focused on a completely different use-case than we have here (both in the Netherlands and in other European countries). I have tried my best to explain this to the people involved via a membership of the TAC, but no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't able to explain it to them. It may be because English is not my first language, I am very disappointed and depressed because of it. Every time I brought up issues, they were not understood. It seems that the system is now completely geared towards a person who wants to personally advertise a /24 network from a datacenter server, gets a permit to use BGP on the internet, and manages his own subnet including DNS. Fine. Any issues like "wanting to run an own DNS server" are waved away with answers like "why don't you use internet DNS resolvers like 1.1.1.1"... But that is NOT AT ALL how we are using AMPRnet! We actually have a radio network. It uses net44 IP space. It is regionally subdivided into subnets, from where individual amateurs and also amateur projects like repeater sites get their subnets and also separate IP addresses. They do so via a coordinator. They do not need randomly assigned addresses, they need addresses in their regional subnet, depending on what radio access point they connect. The network can operate stand-alone. So it needs an internal DNS server that can resolve the domain names and addresses used inside the network. It needs the DNS data for that. As an extra service, the network is also routed towards the internet, both on BGP and IPIP. But that is the entire /16 network, not all those separate subnets (many of which are too small to advertise on internet anyway). I have tried to explain the architecture to the other TAC members and Chris. But I failed. And now we got what we have now, which does not over our needs at all. And worst, Chris is rejecting and denying all my requests to help us and add the features (or even the configuration) we need to operate our network. I am sad, disappointed and depressed. In Chris, in the ARDC. I don't understand why people have to treat each other this way, and cannot co-operate in a friendly way where everyone can be happy doing their hobby. Rob PE1CHL On 2024-05-03 13:28, Charles J. Hargrove via 44net wrote: