Hello all, It has been a while since I posted anything to NANOG. A long time ago (in a galaxy far far away ;) ) I wrote and maintained a software package called NorthStar (http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar) to administrate IP space and various other things. Life got busy and the project fell off my list of priorities. Long story short I am looking to see if anyone is still using NorthStar? Would people like to see development start up again? -- Hitesh Patel
Nice to hear from you... we use it every day still ;) I will admit that we are looking to move to a new system very shortly - biggest reason is IPv6 support. There are other reasons but that is the largest missing feature for us by a long shot... Hope this helps.. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Hitesh Patel [mailto:hitesh@brownkid.net] Sent: February-05-10 9:48 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: NorthStar IP Management System Hello all, It has been a while since I posted anything to NANOG. A long time ago (in a galaxy far far away ;) ) I wrote and maintained a software package called NorthStar (http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar) to administrate IP space and various other things. Life got busy and the project fell off my list of priorities. Long story short I am looking to see if anyone is still using NorthStar? Would people like to see development start up again? -- Hitesh Patel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."
I looked at NorthStar about 5 years ago, but due to its lack of support I chose to use IPPlan instead. I do remember thinking NorthStar would have been a great solution had you been actively maintaining it, and maybe it still will -- should you decide to pick it back up. I would definitely give it another look as an alternative to IPPlan, so keep us posted. -- Eric Cables On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Hitesh Patel <hitesh@brownkid.net> wrote:
Hello all,
It has been a while since I posted anything to NANOG. A long time ago (in a galaxy far far away ;) ) I wrote and maintained a software package called NorthStar (http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar) to administrate IP space and various other things. Life got busy and the project fell off my list of priorities.
Long story short I am looking to see if anyone is still using NorthStar? Would people like to see development start up again?
-- Hitesh Patel
On 2/5/10 8:13 PM, Eric Cables wrote:
I looked at NorthStar about 5 years ago, but due to its lack of support I chose to use IPPlan instead. I do remember thinking NorthStar would have been a great solution had you been actively maintaining it, and maybe it still will -- should you decide to pick it back up.
I would definitely give it another look as an alternative to IPPlan, so keep us posted.
I'm certainly looking at ditching ipplan for something with ipv6 support. The spreadsheet method only goes so far. ~Seth
It's nice to hear that people are still either using or interested in software like NorthStar. I think that the consensus so far is proper support for IPv6. Luckily the code in NorthStar was written with this in mind so I don't think adding support will be a huge undertaking. I will be starting up the devel and user lists again and will post when they are up. In the mean time are there any other features that people would like to see implemented? On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Hitesh Patel <hitesh@brownkid.net> wrote:
Hello all,
It has been a while since I posted anything to NANOG. A long time ago (in a galaxy far far away ;) ) I wrote and maintained a software package called NorthStar (http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar) to administrate IP space and various other things. Life got busy and the project fell off my list of priorities.
Long story short I am looking to see if anyone is still using NorthStar? Would people like to see development start up again?
-- Hitesh Patel
participants (4)
-
Eric Cables -
Hitesh Patel -
Paul Stewart -
Seth Mattinen