Subject: Re: [44net] DNS Clearout From: "John Wiseman" john.wiseman@cantab.net Date: 01/19/2016 04:17 PM

To: "'AMPRNet working group'" 44net@hamradio.ucsd.edu

Thanks, Brian,

I've just checked on the portal, and it seems I'm too late - they have already been allocated to someone else. (44.131.4.18-21). So they won't get removed by the clearout, but I'll need to replace them anyway. But it highlights a problem with your suggested approach - It won't pick up unused names which are in address ranges that have been reallocated. And glancing though the uk dns records I suspect that applies to a lot of entries.

But I can't think of a better solution, and I guess an incomplete clearout is better than none!

73, John

Note that your entries are registered in the ampr.org DNS, but the portal apparently does not respect that. This is one of the problems with the way the DNS part of the portal works: there is no way to see what is already in use before allocating something new.

But nothing has been done about that yet, and the issue is open for many years.

Rob