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.)