Hi group, hello Thomas, IIRC the initial assignment was in fact given to me by you and Paul, so I'm happy to hear from you again. :)

On 02/07/16 23:55, Thomas Osterried wrote:

Hello,

well, a longer tradition than the quite new portal are the country-wide IP-Koordinators.

In DL, we have the coordination team of three people (dd9qp, dg8ngn, dl9sau) and we delegate the responsibility of the local assignments to the regional coordinators. This concept goes back to the last century. From the regional coordinator, Wolfgang had got the initial assignment of his IP addresses.

That is correct. And that was kind of "status quo" when I had to quit Packet Radio activity. But the first thing I found when I searched for infos on the current state of IP in PR was that my IP's no longer do exist (which in fact is not really the problem for me, as I really was not active for a long time. So, no complaints on that from me, that's perfectly OK if there's some need for IPs.

Some time ago, we did a clean-up of the old 44.130 packet-radio block in communication with the regional coordinators.

What's with the portal? - I think we need discuss that. It had been no relevance for us (since no one requested it), and I'm not sure, how it fits in a concept of the country coordinator system (unless a country coordinator defines a do-what-you-want-netblock for self-allocation - but how this may be integrated in a working routing concept??).

I think the portal would not work that good with a concept like the formerly used one with using the IP for granular routing over PR network. But I seem to remember discussions that the "routing feature" would not be needed any more and the whole german IP PR network should be seen as one big block (which I do not really support from my standpoint as sysadmin).

Region ofr.de (44.130.62.0/24) was resigned 2013-07-31. Regional Coordinator was DL1NAT. The zone file of that region expired with serial 2004041601. Nine years after the last update. forward- and reverse- entries were inconsistent: the reverse file had the serial number 2002062201 (I assume 2 years before).

I do not like to blame anyone, but it may be useful in that discussion. 9 (or 11) years after the last coordination of the subnet and 2.5 years after your regional coordinator stated that all records could be removed, you recognize that dg7nef, dg7nef-2 and dg7nef-gate ( 44.130.62.20, .18, .19) have been passed back.

And that lead to my problem with portal.ampr.org as I still had my own local acting DNS serving as "Master" for the zone on requests from my network, so I could at least keep the IP adresses I did contact in a state that did work for me. Yes, split DNS and multiple masters are an ugly thing. But it did work locally then.

This emphasizes both, the difficulties we'll get, even years after a clean-up, and on the other site the need to have a clean-up (the /24 had 57 entries (22%) and we finally got one complain (Wolfgang had 3 addresses -> 5 %). For most cleaned subnets we got 0 responses at all).

Well, in fact no complains from me so far, just a bit confusion on my side. ;)

And imho, it also shows the country- / regional-wide coordination concept makes sense. Currently, we've 35866 IN A records in ampr.org. Imagine we'll have 10 requests a day on the list of the pool of every user, we all will have to read the next 10 years about every individual issue.