On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan@ae7q.net> wrote:
Now that I have an IP address (albeit DHCP) on HamWAN, how do I assign an ampr.org DNS hostname to it, and (if feasible) a reverse IP DNS entry? Do I:
Contact someone here? Contact John Hays (the owner of 44.24.0.0/16)? Need a fixed IP address for these features?
Dean, This is a really good question. DNS is an essential service for a network. It makes higher-level services much more useful (who want's to memorize IP addresses? Okay... other than me!). HamWAN plans to let you create *.hamwan.net hostnames. At the moment, the DNS servers are running (redundant, at multiple sites), but there's no user interface for people like you to add entries. Only a few records have been manually entered. For reverse DNS, Brian Kantor needs to configure the AMPR DNS servers to delegate HamWAN's subnet to HamWAN's DNS servers. He hasn't figured out a way to integrate this into his DNS system yet. Okay, finally an answer to your question: *.ampr.org hostnames must be assigned via AMPR's email robot. Your email address will need to be in the whitelist for this to work. I think this boils down to asking John Hays to add the record for you. It's probably best to work with Bart to get a static IP address(es) first. In a previous email, I think he asked you if you'd like to experiment with static address assignment. I suspect this will involve BGP, so your subnet will roam with you to whatever HamWAN node you connect to. Tom KD7LXL