Qwest, where are my A Records?

Tue Apr 15 17:02:59 UTC 2003

As of this morning, neither DCA-ANS-01.INET.WWEST.NET nor
SVL-ANS-01.INET.QWEST.NET no longer server up our two domains
petsmart.com and statelinetack.com.

If there is anyone from the Qwest DNS Group that can read this, this is
a problem, please contact me offline...

-Aaron

Senior Network Engineer
623-587-2701 desk
480-495-2779 cell

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Mark Borchers
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 7:06 AM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Cc: Stephen Sprunk
Subject: RE: Dealing with ARIN.. my experiences & tips

> > They can.  I'm sure their provider will be happy to oblige, for a 
> > small fee.
>
> No, I mean that you should be able to trade in both PI and PA blocks 
> for a single new PI block.  The policy, as written, only allows 
> trade-ins of PI blocks.  See my replies to David Conrad in this 
> thread.

Been there and done exactly that.  After submitting a request to
renumber a number of PA blocks and a small PI block into a /18 in order
to achieve some aggregation, it was processed by ARIN almost instantly.
On that occasion at least, they exercised good stewardship in not only
address management, but helping the route table, an area which they have
explicitly stated is somewhat at odds with address conservation.  I was
impressed.

> My fear is that the folks actually processing trade-in requests will 
> insist on efficiency documentation (a la RFC2050) before proceeding. 
> While I'd love to take your word that won't happen, why not make it 
> part of the policy and eliminate any possible confusion?

That's reasonable.