Subject: Re: [44net] question regarding amprgw.sysnet.ucsd.edu From: Brian Kantor Brian@UCSD.Edu Date: 08/01/2013 03:25 AM
To: AMPRNet working group 44net@hamradio.ucsd.edu
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:16:32PM -0700, Blaine Forbort wrote:
My DNS request is still waiting for coordinator approval. I guess I'll be waiting for that until I can finish off this first step of my experiment.
Does that mean that you submitted it via the portal.ampr.org DNS function? I'm sorry, that function isn't working yet. I've asked for it to be taken off the portal menu until it*is* working as it confuses people.
It also needs to be discussed what functionality is required here for both the users and the coordinator. Sometimes I get requests for approval, and I just looked in the portal.ampr.org again, but it does not really cover the requirements.
What we need is a request from a user to get one or more addresses allocated, accompanied by information like region where they live. The coordinator then must be able to look into the already assigned list of addresses and find an available address in the correct region (subnet), assign it, and return the address to the requester. As it is now, I get requests for 44.137.0.0/16 which makes little sense. Until now I have a hosts file and I make the assignment by browsing through it in the editor, and copy/pasting a line. Then I send the corresponding update to the ampraddr robot. How can we do this in the portal when we abandon the hosts files?
Rob