Re: [44net] DNS Delegation idea / query

Yes of course it is for coordinators - those are the people who are supposed to assign and update the name-address mappings. I think once it was an objective of the portal to enable users to update the entries in their own subnet, but it never materialized. Also I thing a web DNS editor (most of them anyway) is not a useful tool for a coordinator, as they need to have an overview of the entire subnet they manage.  When someone asks for an address I have to look what is already there, which subnet is for that area, what ranges are free, and then assign an address or subnet to them as required. That is easy when having the hosts file (which includes comments) in my editor, and much more difficult when I have to browse around in a webtool. DNS delegation fragments the resource.  There are several NS records that point to internet addresses, making us dependent on internet for address lookup.  This even is the case for ampr.org itself for which only 1 of the 4 servers is on AMPRnet. Also those servers are distributed around the world.  This makes ampr.org and 44-reverse lookups quite slow. As we like things to work well, I have an hourly job that checks the DNS serial for the ampr.org zone and when it is newer than our local copy, it retrieves the newest zone files from ftp://gw.ampr.org/pub/ampr.tar.gz and loads them into our own DNS resolver. So anything that is directly in those zonefiles can be looked up quickly on our network, the delegated parts of course remain slow. It would of course be better when we could just IXFR the updates from the master server, but it does not support it. I also tried to do this with some of the delegated servers but most of them refuse transfers. Not very friendly I would say, but likely it is just the default setup for most DNS servers these days. I think they should at least support zone transfer, preferably IXFR, from net-44 addresses. Rob On 8/14/21 7:52 PM, Af6ep via 44Net wrote: