RE: To CAIS Engineers - WAKE UP AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR CUSTOMERS

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1

I'm sorry Roeland, but your statement about SWIP'ing anything less than a
/24 is just inaccurate. We SWIP /29s and /30s daily, for both our Frame
and our DSL customers.

2

Yes, ARIN won't _prevent_ you from SWIPping /29s and /30s, but ARIN _requires_
you to SWIP any suballocation larger than a /28, and won't issue
additional blocks to you if your current blocks aren't properly SWIPped.

-C

3

ARIN returns my /30's and says I can't do netblocks larger than /29 so I
stopped doing /30's. Are you paying them something on the side or just not
reading all the replies from them? :slight_smile:

Hunter Pine
Vice President, Network Operations
hunter@compuhelp.com
CompuHelp Technologies
11 Lispenard Street
New York, NY 10013
212-995-2955 x21
http://www.compuhelp.com

4

s/larger/smaller, you mean?

I actually haven't SWIPped a /30 myself - I was referring to John Murphy's
statement implying that he has successfully. I have SWIPped /29's,
however.

-C

5

Larger - ARIN refers to netblocks by subnet mask bit length. So a /30 is
larger than a /29.

It took me a while to figure this out myself while reading their docs. I
guess whenever referring to ARIN, I use the backwards method when comparing
netblocks to keep myself at least partially sane. :slight_smile:

6

s/larger/smaller, you mean?

I actually haven't SWIPped a /30 myself - I was referring to John Murphy's
statement implying that he has successfully. I have SWIPped /29's,
however.

I just got done SWIPing all my /29's /28's and larger. Should I be
SWIPing /30's (.252) as well?

I know ARIN says /29 is required, but is SWIPing /30's considered
good practice? What about singles? (/32)

It sure makes hooking a whois server into my customer databases sound
interesting. --Mike--

7

Perhaps you mean 'longer' ...

8

No, don't SWiP /30's or /32's. ARIN won't even accept them.

/H

9

I am currently using Business DSL from speakeasy and I am not happy
about them and their reverse DNS policy. They haven't swiped anything
to ARIN, nor rwhois (I have a /27 block). They won't do so far
reverse DNS entries for 2 machine, I need the reverse DNS before
I can move them. Right now they say we don't do those entries, as
the forward DNS points somewhere else.