[44net] Re: Allocations vs DNS Records

In 2014 and 2016 I tried to contact all the users that had previously requested addresses, and asked them if they wanted to keep them.  Most addresses in the list at that time were assigned in the days of IP over packet radio, from about 1987 to the early 2000's, and likely not many were still in use.  So I did a big cleanup at that time. You are right: it is a lot of work.  I retrieved mail addresses from the archived request mails as far as still available, mailed to call(a)amsat.org, call(a)veron.nl, call(a)vrza.nl and still I did not get reply from many of them.  Those were mostly deleted. In the past it was possible to download a list of valid callsigns from our radio authority, and I used to download it weekly and check which callsigns were de-registered and had IP assignments, which I then deleted.  But "for privacy reasons" this is no longer available and it has become more difficult again to keep the list clean. Another frequent issue is that hams get help from someone else in setting up the station, they together perform tasks like requesting an address and configuring it in the equipment, but the main operator himself has no clue how it is working.  When they later receive a mail from me with a request to perform some change, even something like a new OpenVPN certificate because we switched to a new server, I get no reply or an indication that they have to ask someone else and that it may take some time.  A task like replace a .ovpn file by another may take several months to implement. That will probably be a hurdle too when cleanup operations via something like the new portal are being performed. Rob On 12/21/22 21:41, Neil Johnson via 44net wrote: