7 Feb
2016
7 Feb
'16
2:54 p.m.
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