Re: [44net] DNS entries

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:20:45 +0000, Chris Smith <chris(a)g1fef.co.uk> wrote: [snip] Mike, With all due respect for the hard work and time Chris has been putting into the portal. The statement "they haven't been properly allocated to you" is false. It should come with the qualification that they haven't been allocated to you under the new system. They have been properly allocated to you by your coordinator all these years you have had them but unless you have DNS entries and encap distribution they will have connectivity limited to sites that have direct access or coded routes to them. The purpose of the portal is to have a central repository of IP address allocations. With DNS management in the future. This will allow you to have an account with those addresses under your control and you can release them or request new ones according to your activity. Under the old method, the only validation of IP address assignment you received was the email from your coordinator and registration in the DNS server when he sent the commands to the DNS mail-bot, but they were nevertheless very valid assignments. I have been coordinating 44.18.0.0/16 since 1992 and I have assigned some 300+ IP addresses and only 3 of them are allocated in the new system. Are those 300 addresses "invalid"? Tell that to the DNS system. I have no way to manually enter them and no way to contact the original assignees to tell them to cease operations on those addresses until they register with the portal or to even know if they are still using them or not but they are still legitimate assignments. But those addresses will never be released until someone goes back and manually confirms whether the assigned agencies are still using them or not. This is the management problem the portal is intended to solve. Mike, what you need to do is open an account in the portal if you don't already have one and request a new IP address or block with the added note that you currently have those blocks you are actively using. This will allow your coordinator to go into his history file and verify the assignment and approve the new coordination. This will make your assignment valid with the portal. If for some reason you don't need an address you can go back later and release it. -- Geoff Joy - ke6qh - AmprNet IP Address Coordinator for San Bernardino & Riverside Counties. geoff(a)windomeister.com