[152398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke S. Crawford)
Sat Apr 28 03:19:18 2012
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:18:41 -0400
From: "Luke S. Crawford" <lsc@prgmr.com>
To: admin@thecpaneladmin.com
In-Reply-To: <75305ce04e4a896ddb8f307bee34b7a8@thecpaneladmin.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:32:17PM -0400, admin@thecpaneladmin.com wrote:
> Anyone have any tips for getting IPs from ARIN? For an end-user
> allocation they are requesting that we provide customer names for
> existing allocations, which is information that will take a while to
> obtain. They are insisting that this is standard process and something
> that everyone does when requesting IPs. Has anyone actually had to do
> this?
I have.
clearly, I should have asked, or looked closer, but when I started
this mess? it was not at all clear to me that ARIN saw things that went
into a home as 'residential' and everything else as 'business' - but
from my reading and their reactions to my questions, that's how they see
it. If it's in a data center and not in a residence, you need to
give them a name (human or business) for every reassigned IP,
even if the reassignment is a /32.
Probably the majority of my VPSs? personal use, but not residential.
I started with changing the privacy policy, and blogged about it, asking
for at least 80% of the people to opt-in. Maybe 2% did. I gave it
months, then I emailed everyone, asking them to opt-out. I gave them
two weeks, maybe 2% did.
So yeah; eh, nobody got mad at me for it, and I think some people were
impressed that I emailed them when I made such a large change to
the privacy policy (that isn't expected?) so I guess it all turned out
okay, but yeah. ARIN wants a name of some sort for every
/32. (Now, I just did a query against my billing database and returned
the business name and only returned the human name if there was no
business name.)
