Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

[Chuck Anderson <cra () WPI EDU>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> > 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?