Archived documents

DNS, DHCP and IP address management is changing. Please see BlueCat documentation The IP Register database is no longer in operation.

Jackdaw

These pages are from the project to set up the IP Register database on Jackdaw in 1999 - 2001.

Internals

Original project papers

Policy documents

These old obsolete policies date from the 1990s and early 2000s, when IP Register was a more hands-on service.

  • Relieving the IP address shortage - the introduction of CUDN-wide private IP addresses

  • IP Addresses - A "leaflet" originally dating back to 1992, which explained how to get an IP address and DNS entry when they were all allocated manually by the IP Register team.