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get the chickens out now dood! > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Sam Stickland > Sent: 19 January 2006 14:21 > To: [email protected] > Subject: IP Addresses from a different region > > > Hi, > > Long story short... I'm under some considerable pressure from > management to obtain a /24 of addresses from ARIN. We are a > UK based ISP that are, of course, members of RIPE. Is this > possible? If I approach one of ARIN's LIRs can they obtain > ARIN PI space for our client, and are their any volunteers? > Or, is it the case, that being outside of ARIN's geographic > reach that we can't approach them? > > Short story long... This is for a client that currently has a > USA based operation, that wants to consolidate everything in > one of our colo centres. Their USA servers are involved in > some of kind advertising system that attempts to do > geographic location based on the IP address prefix. I am > assured that traceroutes, SWIP data, and AS number play no > part in this geographic lookup. > > The client insists that they must have addresses from a > prefix that appear to have been allocated by ARIN for this > system to continue to work. The language barrier between us > has been scrupering attempts by me to get more techincal > information from them. > > As usual management are interested in "solutions not > problems" ;) and this deal is worth quite a bit of money. I > hate to be contributing to the ever increasing PI swamp > space, but unfortunately I don't pay my own wages. > > Any suggestions? > > Sam >
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