Abuse of ARIN policies.

[Joe DeCosta]

the ISP's uplink should ask the ISP, and if a reseller/customer  of the
ISP has IPspace at their provisioning disposal, then the ISP can ask the
customer/reseller
see http://www.megapath.net/iprequest.asp#first  for how a top level ISP
does things.........to even get ip's
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Joe DeCosta
joe at decosta.org
~Off to see the wonderful wizard of Oz!~
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Potent Products wrote:

> Sounds to me like your Hosting company is asking you to do "their
> work" for them. By default, when you have space on "someone
> else's" Server, there is nothing you can hide from them. Ergo:
> they should know everything you are doing.
> 
> Although they have the "authority" to make a request (like the
> one you describe) I would CMA by sending the information directly
> to your Hoster, using double-registered Postal Mail.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L. James Prevo" <president at prevo.net>
> To: "ARIN Virtual Web Hosting (E-mail)" <vwp at arin.net>
> Sent: April 27, 2001 3:25 PM
> Subject: Abuse of ARIN policies.
> 
> 
> I though I would pass this onto the users of this list.  I am
> wondering about
> your feelings about this.  Is ARIN requesting this info as this
> message to
> this user suggest?
> 
> L. James Prevo
> President
> The Prevo Network
> http://www.prevo.net
> "The Place Where We Unlock Your Doors to the Net!"
> 
> Message: 5
> From: "hirsh -e-skwirtz" <hirsheskwirtz at hotmail.com>
> To: cobalt-users at list.cobalt.com
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:16:20 -0700
> Subject: [cobalt-users] what the hell kind of crap is this???
> Reply-To: cobalt-users at list.cobalt.com
> 
> my isp and server provider sent me this email - demanding my
> custoner list -
> 
> has anybody ever had to deal with this sort of intrusion?
> 
> we have been told we will loose our servers if we do not comply
> 
> >>>>>>>
> 
> Subject: IP audit
> CC: ipadmin at cobaltracks.com
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Our IP's are being checked (audited) by ARIN. We must justify the
> IP
> usage
> to ARIN or we may lose IP's. If we lose the IP's we might not be
> able
> to
> provide some services to you, Cobalt Racks customers (one of our
> major
> competitors recently lost a big part of their IP allocation).
> 
> As you know, there is a shortage of IP's worldwide. Please help
> us to
> keep
> the IP's and provide services for you. This is what we need:
> 
> - Complete list of all your IP's
> 
> - Complete list of ALL DOMAINS on EACH IP.
> 
> We count on your support. This information is confidential and
> goes
> only to
> ARIN, which is a non-profit organization.
> 
> Please send this back by Friday, May 4, 2001. WE MUST HAVE THIS
> INFORMATION!
> 
> Please send the list to ipadmin at cobaltracks.com
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Tom Surmiak
> Sales
> Cobalt Racks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>