[HamWAN PSDR] hostname on ampr.org?

Kenny Richards richark at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 09:09:38 PDT 2014


Maybe the 'what Bart does' could be also posted to the HamWAN wiki? ;-)

73,
Kenny


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan at ae7q.net> wrote:

>  I don't which "tomorrow" you mean (given the time on your message), but I
> will be unavailable today (Saturday) until about 2:30pm.
>
> Note that I occasionally "/system reset-configuration" on my radio (for
> testing/learning purposes), so I'd like to save whatever you do (or what
> you tell me to do) to a file.  I know there's a "save configuration"
> option, so I suppose I can use that.  Anyway, I'd like to *LEARN* what
> you are doing (that being one of the points of this exercise).
>
> -- Dean AE7Q
> 425-359-4276 (cell)
>
>
> On 2014-03-22 00:31, Bart Kus wrote:
>
> Yeah, I think it'd be good to do this tomorrow.  I can setup Paine-S2 to
> run BGP to you, configure your modem to reciprocate, setup IPsec(AH), get
> your static (/32?) routing via your modem and you can distribute it
> internally however you like.  I can also add a DNS entry for that IP as you
> require.
>
> Gotta flip some SQL triggers to SQL stored procs, which I've been meaning
> to do for weeks now.
>
> --Bart
>
>
> On 3/21/2014 11:09 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan at ae7q.net><hamwan at 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:
>
>
>    1. Contact someone here?
>    2. Contact John Hays (the owner of 44.24.0.0/16)?
>    3. 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 wants 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
>
>
>
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