ARIN IP/AS Assignment

Sat Oct 2 17:22:58 UTC 2010

Usually this is easily solved with letters of intent to peer upon AS issuance
from the two providers. Most providers will do this for you fairly easily.

Owen

On Oct 2, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote:

> On 10/2/10 1:17 AM, Imran Moin wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> I was wondering how long it is taking ARIN these days to assign new IP block
>> and AS Number. We are a new startup and looking to build our network over
>> the next few months.
>> 
> 
> It took only a few days to be assigned our AS number, but that was after hair pulling, head banging on desk, and i-want-to-drink-every-night-after-work for a week or two while we figured out how to work around the circular "You need to have two upstreams first before we will assign an AS" rule but providers can't/won't peer with you without one in the first place reality.
> 
> I wish you luck :)
> 
> 
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