cannot access some popular websites from Linode, geolocation is wrong, ARIN is to blame?

Mon Mar 4 05:48:06 UTC 2013

On Mar 3, 2013, at 15:48 , Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/2/13, Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2 March 2013 15:45, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>>> Now, back to ARIN:  is Linode doing it right?  Is vr.org doing it
>>>> wrong?  Are they both doing it correct, or are they both wrong?
>> They have repeatedly disagreed, on two separate occasions, effectively
>> claiming they themselves are the customers:
> 
> ... they are assigning IP addresses to their own equipment, which
> belongs to the provider at all times, and the contact can be the same
> contact for all their resources, therefore:   they are not necessarily
> required to display a SWIP in WHOIS.  They just need to keep certain
> documentation.

The addresses assigned to their hardware interfaces may fit that
argument.

The addresses assigned to customer virtuals, OTOH, IMHO do not
really meet that test. The virtual and its content are not property of
Linode, they belong to the customer. Yes, the customer is using
Linode's hardware as an execution environment for their virtual, but
the address range is assigned to the customer virtual. At that point,
I would argue that the policy for SWIP does, in fact, apply.

Owen