Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-28 Thread Luke S. Crawford
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:32:17PM -0400, ad...@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 ar

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Jack Bates
On 4/26/2012 7:09 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: ome "show" commands will show DHCP server usage, but not conclusive proof of the utilization of the address space. Because the show commands are not independently verifiable -- for all the RIR knows, someone plugged in a big stack of $10 modems just to re

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread William Herrin
On 4/26/12, Owen DeLong wrote: > On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Jack Bates wrote: >> It is unreasonable to require detailed customer information on /32 static >> assignments which make up the smallest fraction of space compared to the >> huge blocks of dhcp pools (pools which justify allocations on

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/26/2012 1:05 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> If resources are used to provide service to a customer, it is not >> unreasonable that ARIN require that this to be shown, what customer, >> etc -- the org. assigning or reallocating the resources is re

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/26/12, Jack Bates wrote: >> In addition to this documentation, for reallocations of /29 or more >> IPs, SWIP or Rwhois is also required by policy. > It is unreasonable to require detailed customer information on /32 > static assignments which make up the smallest fraction of space compared

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:31:44AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > > I sometimes wonder what happens to that information; if it sits around > > in an archive somewhere in the vast digital repositories of ARIN > > awaiting someone to steal it. > > That's

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread William Herrin
On 4/26/12, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/26/2012 1:05 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> In addition to this documentation, for reallocations of /29 or more >> IPs, SWIP or Rwhois is also required by policy. > > It is unreasonable to require detailed customer information on /32 > static assignments which mak

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread William Herrin
On 4/26/12, Joe Maimon wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >> RWHOIS is a perfectly valid alternative to SWIP. > I actually got RWHOIS working a while back. But then faced with the > prospect of loading it up, I decided that ARIN templates were actually > easier to use. The rwhois software from about 10

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Jack Bates
On 4/26/2012 1:05 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: If resources are used to provide service to a customer, it is not unreasonable that ARIN require that this to be shown, what customer, etc -- the org. assigning or reallocating the resources is required to have documented this. In addition to this docum

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Though to be fair that is probably legacy and level3 does swip its customers. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > suresh@frodo 07:41:38 :~$ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 > Trying 209.244.1.179... > ^C [keeps timing out] -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
They do, they do .. but there's all kinds of rwhois unfortunately. suresh@frodo 07:41:38 :~$ telnet rwhois.level3.net 4321 Trying 209.244.1.179... ^C [keeps timing out] suresh@frodo 07:48:17 :~$ telnet rwhois.hostnoc.net 4321 Trying 64.191.49.26... Connected to rwhois.hostnoc.net. Escape characte

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Owen DeLong
Actually, most of the ISPs I know that use RWHOIS instead of SWIP do so tying the RWHOIS server into their IP management database through an automated process (if not just live queries). However, you are right that most ISPs use SWIP. Owen On Apr 26, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrot

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It is an extremely rare ISP that has an rwhois server, and then ensures that it remains available, up and answering queries. And even rarer when the ISP ensures that its rwhois records are up to date and not hopelessly stale. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Owen DeLong w

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-26 Thread Joe Maimon
Owen DeLong wrote: RWHOIS is a perfectly valid alternative to SWIP. Owen I actually got RWHOIS working a while back. But then faced with the prospect of loading it up, I decided that ARIN templates were actually easier to use. And with their restful interface, even more so. Unless

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/25/12, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/25/2012 10:31 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> There is nothing whatsoever wrong with providing the information to >> ARIN under NDA. ARIN provides a very good (IMHO) plain English mutual -- > Sure, and small ISP techs immediately think of NDAs when talking to > ARIN.

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Jack Bates
This is the first time I've seen ARIN request actual individual names. I've had them requests SWIP and I've had them request exact user counts, and I generally get much larger allocations than what was being allocated. In addition, all their numbers matched up with all of my numbers and the all

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread John Curran
On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Andy Susag wrote: > We just recently "wrastled" with ARIN to get a whopping /22 from them, > it wasn't very easy. > > Keeping record of what you have allocated downstream is important and I > totally agree with ARIN insisting this be done. Luckily as long as you > ha

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Andy Susag" writes: > Seems kind of counterproductive to ARIN though. I wouldn't think they'd > like a database full of fudged SWIP info, but I guess they're OK with > it... They require an officer attestation. SWIP info that is made up out of whole cloth sounds suspiciously like fraud to me,

RE: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Andy Susag
: 'Kenneth McRae'; 'Owen DeLong' Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN I got a new allocation about 18 months ago. I sent them a spread sheet of the users and their current IPs. I changed the real customer name to something that reflected what business the

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Kenneth McRae
No I am speaking about my previous positons with large providers, telco, etc. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Kenneth McRae < > kenneth.mc...@dreamhost.com> wrote: > >> I have never provided the names of end users.. How the address spa

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, -Hammer- wrote: Killing me softly Owen The difference is subtle, but important. jms

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread -Hammer-
Killing me softly Owen -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 4/25/2012 1:15 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Nope... You paid for and received registration services for a block of IP Addresses. Anyone can use those integers for many purposes, but, only you are registered to use

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Owen DeLong
Nope... You paid for and received registration services for a block of IP Addresses. Anyone can use those integers for many purposes, but, only you are registered to use them as topological identifiers on the internet according to ARIN and the other RIRs. Owen On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:59 AM, -Ha

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread -Hammer-
Sorry everyone. Bad choice of words. I simply meant they have their money and we have our allocation. Stand down. Move along. Nothing to see here. -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 4/25/2012 11:55 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: No, you didn't. You may have completed the acquis

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread -Hammer-
purchase/lease/rent/titlepawn/etc. We paid for and got a block of IPs. -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 4/25/2012 11:13 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:54:39 -0500, -Hammer- said: I can say that I recently completed the purchase of a large IPv

RE: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Richey
nog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN I have never provided the names of end users.. How the address space would be utilized? Definitely.. But not the names of end users... On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > There is not a new policy added on to prevent hoar

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Owen DeLong
No, you didn't. You may have completed the acquisition of a large IPv6 block, but you did not purchase it. Number resources are not property and cannot be bought and/or sold. What you pay to ARIN pays for registration services (the registration of the numbers, not the numbers themselves). While

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:54:39 -0500, -Hammer- said: > I can say that I recently completed the purchase of a large IPv6 block. "purchase"??!? pgpMtR5JcMTNK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Kenneth McRae wrote: > I have never provided the names of end users.. How the address space > would be utilized? Definitely.. But not the names of end users... > Probably because you are an "end user". If you're talking about AS26347, I don't think there is any

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Chuck Anderson wrote: RWHOIS is a perfectly valid alternative to SWIP. Can a downstream ISP SWIP records if their upstream ISP uses RWHOIS for the block that is further delegated to that downstream ISP? I would think so, but it might also depend on how the space is deleg

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread -Hammer-
I can say that I recently completed the purchase of a large IPv6 block. We've had several large V4 blocks for years and got them with very little effort. For this block, we had to provide a detailed list of all our physical locations as well as how the IP schema would be utilized. I also had to

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Kenneth McRae wrote: I have never provided the names of end users.. How the address space would be utilized? Definitely.. But not the names of end users... When I worked at an ISP, we provided the names of companies to whom we assigned address space, but not individual

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > > > > > ad...@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 f

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Kenneth McRae
I have never provided the names of end users.. How the address space would be utilized? Definitely.. But not the names of end users... On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > There is not a new policy added on to prevent hoarding. What is required > is what > has been required f

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Owen DeLong
There is not a new policy added on to prevent hoarding. What is required is what has been required for several years. Utilization information and proper justification. If you are seeking an ISP allocation, then, reassignment (customer) information is in fact part of that utilization information.

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/24/2012 2:00 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I know that the ARIN process can, on occasion be tricky to navigate if you >> don't >> understand the subtleties of how some of the terminology is defined and that >> people >> often use terms which hav

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > > ad...@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 >>

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Kenneth McRae
Negative.. I have never had to provide end user information. I have been required to provide utilization information. I am sure this "policy" is and add-on to make it more difficult to prevent hoarding.. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Joe Maimon
ad...@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 som

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread David Miller
On 4/25/2012 12:57 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/24/2012 2:00 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I know that the ARIN process can, on occasion be tricky to navigate >> if you don't >> understand the subtleties of how some of the terminology is defined >> and that people >> often use terms which have very spe

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Jack Bates
On 4/24/2012 2:00 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I know that the ARIN process can, on occasion be tricky to navigate if you don't understand the subtleties of how some of the terminology is defined and that people often use terms which have very specific meanings to ARIN staff members to have a much bro

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread William Herrin
On 4/24/12, ad...@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 standar

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> That's not entirely true. What you say applies to one possible way for an >> ISP to get an allocation. It does not apply at all to end-users. > > Even for end-user allocations, they w

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 24-Apr-12 12:32, ad...@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. There are no "end-user allocati

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > That's not entirely true. What you say applies to one possible way for an > ISP to get an allocation. It does not apply at all to end-users. Even for end-user allocations, they would still need to fulfill the requirements of 4.3.3 in the ARIN

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 ad...@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 sta

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 24, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, 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

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, ad...@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 st

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:32 AM, 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