"charlesb" wrote in message
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"TC" wrote in message
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That leads to another question how do you elect yourself as a new
coordinator and what does a coordinator do and all that jazz?

Make up an IP number for yourself and hey presto! You're a coordinator!

The people who used to take care of this do not care any more, so just make
something up and go. Who will ever know the difference? You might get one,
maybe two other hams to play with this stuff, so it's not like you have to
worry about causing any trouble with your AMPR station or the addresses you
make up. Just stay off of the regular packet frequencies and you won't
bother anybody or interrupt anything important.


We have tried for six years to get the "official hosts list" at UCSD fixed.
So far no result. So we just started over and assign our own addresses
out of net 44.116. The coordinator for that net block will occasionally
answer email requests, but has not yet managed to get any updates into
the system ...except the first one just over six years ago. We now have
something like 50 hosts online, spread over 11 subnets. The official
list is useless, and I've been unable to get any response at all from Brian.
Yes, we run our own DNS, since the official one is useless.

the official list contains addresses for dead people, people who moved out
of the area 15 years ago, people who changed callsign, and about 100
people who obtained addresses long ago and never got on packet :-)

So pick addresses from the correct net block and use 'em.

Maybe someday someone else will take over the administration
of net 44 and then the official DNS might become useful again.

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... Hank

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