1 Aug
2013
1 Aug
'13
4:04 p.m.
Subject:
[44net] gateways sunset
From:
Brian Kantor <Brian(a)UCSD.Edu>
Date:
08/01/2013 03:54 AM
To:
44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu
As many of you know, when we set up the portal and moved the gateways
maintenance to it, we imported the legacy gateways file which included
a significant number of dormant or abandoned gateway entries.
Since then we've requested that people operating gateways "take
possession" of them by registering their active gateways.
I believe the time has come to flush all the gateway entries which have
not been registered -- clearly by now if they're not registered they
must be abandoned.
So I propose that we use the month of August to get the last of the
active gateways registered with the portal, and after the last day of
the month we remove all unregistered gateways from the gateways files.
What will remain are the gateways that are still active and being operated
by somebody. This should make the tunnels routing table a bit smaller.
Would it be
possible to add the gateway status (actively registered or only imported)
somehow in the gateway list? And maybe to list gateways with a subnet within the
assigned address range for a coordinator?
If so, I could try to contact the gateway operators in my range to get them to register
or abandon their gateway entry.
Rob