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Looking at leasing IP Addresses?

Are you looking at leasing some IP addresses for your ISP or company? If so, check out ARIN’s page on IP leasing. The biggest thing ISPs should pay attention to the following:Address space leased without providing Internet services cannot be used for justification when requesting IPv4 addresses from the Waiting List (4.1.8) or specified market transfers (8.3 and 8.4 recipients). If you are leasing addresses to an organization, you cannot use the leasing arrangement as a reason for requesting additional IPv4 addresses.

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The Mess we call BGP

Ever wonder why BGP seems to be such a complicated protocol to administer? It seems pretty straightforward to set up. Some commands, and you have a BGP session. Easy huh? BGP is one of those things where the more BGP feeds you bring in, the more complex traffic management becomes. Why? Take a look at the following graphic. What you are looking at is a small visualization of some of the AS connections to Hurricane Electric (AS6939) in North America. This is not...

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ARIN consulting package end-of-the-year special

From now until the end of the year, I am running the following consulting package, including the following ARIN services. -Helping you set up your organization within ARIN-Helping you set up your Point of Contact (POC) records-Getting your own ASN-Getting an IPV6 allocation-Generating RPKI and ROA for up to 10 IP blocks (V4 and V6)-Creating route registry entries for 1 ASN and up to 10 IP blocks-Creating a PeeringDB entry and linking that to your route registry-Setting up your IP blocks to point...

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Packets Down Range #6:OpenWifi, iOT, RDOF,CBRS

Welcome to issue #6 of Packets Down Range. The thing I am excited about lately is the 100 Gig passive mux by solid optics. One of the hats I wear is running an IX. We are always looking for ways to best utilize our dark fiber assets to increase data rates. Keep those tips and articles coming. I am working on the Patreon edition, and it will be released shortly. Data Center News •Are Data Centers pricing themselves out of the market? Rising...

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New Arin Membership structure

On 1 January 2022, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) implemented a new fee schedule and membership structure.  There are now two customer membership categories: Service and General. Both categories are entities that have a valid ARIN Registration Services Agreement (RSA or LRSA) for IPv4 and/or IPv6 address space. However, General Members are able to nominate candidates and vote in ARIN elections for both the board of Trustees and Advisory Council. They also must express a commitment to participating in ARIN elections...

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Internet Routing Registry Resources by j2sw

What is a routing registry?From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Routing_RegistryThe Internet routing registry works by providing an interlinked hierarchy of objects designed to facilitate the organization of IP routing between organizations, and also to provide data in an appropriate format for automatic programming of routers. Network engineers from participating organizations are authorized to modify the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) objects, in the registry, for their own networks. Then, any network engineer, or member of the public, is able to query the route registry for particular information of...

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ARIN resources and the Service Provider

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can be intimidated by all of the facets of working with the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN). I have put together a guide that outlines common things you, as a service provider, need to do. This guide is not an end-all how-to. Throughout, I am posting videos and links taken from the ARIN site to help. This article is more of an outline of what a service provider needs to do. The majority of the steps below will...

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Routing Registries and you

This was originally published at https://www.mtin.net/blog/internet-routing-registries/  It has been updated form grammar, but I am working on an updated version of this, Routing Registries are a mysterious underpinning of the peering and BGP world. To many, they are arcane and complicated. If you have found this article you are at least investigating the use of a registry. Either that or you have run out of fluffy kittens to watch on YouTube. Either way, one of the first questions is “Why use a routing...

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