My speicific issue here is that my local AMPR coordinator recently told me that unless all my IP addresses had a DNS entry, I risked loosing my allocations. I think this is a policy that *he* is setting himself (not a global AMPR policy) and though I don't agree with his view, I obliged to give him ~1024 hostnames to fill things out. If other AMPR coordinators have similar approaches, then DNS entries mean everything to the IP allocation be it a subnet or a /32.
--David KI6ZHD
This is not how I handle allocations... in the area I manage one can allocate individual addresses or subnets, and when they are subnets the address range of the subnet is reserved but not each address in the subnet needs to have a name attached.
However, all traffic for addresses without associated name in .ampr.org is filtered at our internet gateway. So when you want to actually *use* an address outside the local radio network, it has to have a name.
(this is the same policy as in the gateway at UCSD)
Rob