[EAS] IPAWS IP

[Dave Turnmire]

On 6/28/2012 3:58 PM, Ed Czarnecki wrote:
> I posed this question to the IPAWS office recently.  Here is their guidance:
>
> "IPAWS does NOT support the use of connecting to the feed by designating an IP vice fully qualified domain name. The IP may change ...  If a device is set to hit the IP and the IP changes, the station will no longer be monitoring the feed ... There should be no confusion: fema/ipaws neither supports nor suggests using the ip address in lieu of the fqdn."
>
> So that is where we are at the present time.
>
Maybe someone in IPAWS should talk to their IT staff about the REAL 
WORLD.  I'm not talking about how we configure the EAS box... as far as 
I know, they all except domain names.  On the other hand... while I 
don't pretend to be an expert on all routers and firewalls... ALL of the 
ones I AM familiar with... work exclusively with IP addresses.  The 
nature of what they do make that almost an imperative.  And nothing can 
connect to FEMA without passing through routers and firewalls.   FEMA's 
IT staff should know this... presumably their IT staff is at least as 
security conscious as broadcast engineers.  I bet THEIR firewall 
configurations to allow incoming traffic into THEIR CAP Server knows the 
IP address involved.  And IF their server IP changes... NO ONE will have 
access until someone tells the person(s) managing their firewalls/routers!

Dave