On 4/24/12, admin@thecpaneladmin.com <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?
First, distinguish whether you're looking for an ISP allocation or an end-user assignment. If you're an end user then you're not allocating IP addresses to customers. I know you think you are, but trust me: you're not. You're assigning a block of addresses to 20 servers in the computer room and a block of addresses to 50 PCs on the LAN, and so forth. Where you claim servers connected to the Internet, expect to provide a list of current IPs or URLs which you claim will be moved onto the new addresses. You don't plan to use NAT anywhere because real IP addresses are better. Right? And if you have a customer at site B then you're doing the same thing at site B: X servers here, Y desktops there. Not at customer B, at _your site_ B. Also, you're multihoming. You already requested and received an ASN and you've provided a copy of bills from two different Internet vendors both listing your business name and location. Because if you're not multihoming then you have to have many many more computers. So many computers, in fact, that you'd have to be crazy not to multihome. If you're an ISP, the rules are a little different. A few of your addresses will be specified as above but most will be listed as "assigned to Customer XYZ, address, name, phone number." Expect to provide customer name, address, contact name, contact email and phone number. If you don't wanna, you don't get to play at national registry level. Go get IPs from your upstream. For your largest customer assignments, expect to also present some basic documentation of their use in the same form as above: 50 PCs on the LAN, 20 servers in the computer room, etc. Because that's what the customer gave you to justify receiving those addresses. Pursuant to ARIN policy which as an ISP you follow. Right? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004