Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

Wed Apr 25 15:49:35 UTC 2012

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> > admin at 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?
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > ARIN does not require you or your customers to use NAT.
> > 
> > If you have customers, you are an ISP and need an allocation.
> > 
> > SWIP everything you do.
> > 
> RWHOIS is a perfectly valid alternative to SWIP.

Can a downstream ISP SWIP records if their upstream ISP uses RWHOIS
for the block that is further delegated to that downstream ISP?