Re: ARIN down?

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

Yep, they're under another DDoS attack:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: ARIN <info () arin net>
> Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN DDoS Attack
> Date: March 25, 2016 at 1:31:34 PM PDT
> To: arin-announce () arin net
>
> Starting at 3:55 PM EDT on Friday, 25 March, a DDoS attack began against ARIN. This was and continues to be a 
> sustained attack against our provisioning services, email, and website. We initiated our DDoS mitigation plan and are 
> in the process of mitigating various types of attack traffic patterns. All our other public-facing services (Whois, 
> Whois-RWS, RDAP, DNS, IRR, and RPKI repository services) are not affected by this attack and are operating normally.
>
> We will announce an all clear 24 hours after the attacks have stopped.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Kosters
> Chief Technology Officer
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
> _______________________________________________


Regards,
-drc

> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:43 PM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
>
> I haven’t been able to connect to http://arin.net for several hours, but was able to open a ticket this morning. I’ve 
> tried from several different networks, all roads seem to lead to the same place, with packets dropping at the NTT 
> interface 129.250.196.154. e.g.:
>
> $ traceroute arin.net<http://arin.net>
> traceroute: Warning: arin.net<http://arin.net> has multiple addresses; using 199.43.0.44
> traceroute to arin.net<http://arin.net> (199.43.0.44), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
> 1  l100.lsanca-vfttp-106.verizon-gni.net<http://l100.lsanca-vfttp-106.verizon-gni.net> (98.112.74.1)  5.992 ms  4.865 
> ms  4.943 ms
> 2  172.102.106.24 (172.102.106.24)  9.962 ms  9.723 ms  12.242 ms
> 3  ae2-0.lax01-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net<http://ae2-0.lax01-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net> (130.81.22.238)  29.982 ms *
>    so-4-1-0-0.lax01-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net<http://so-4-1-0-0.lax01-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net> (130.81.151.248)  9.428 
> ms
> 4  0.ae6.br1.lax15.alter.net<http://ae6.br1.lax15.alter.net> (140.222.225.137)  9.806 ms * *
> 5  ae-7.r01.lsanca20.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.8.85)  10.409 ms
>    0.ae6.br1.lax15.alter.net<http://ae6.br1.lax15.alter.net> (140.222.225.137)  19.783 ms  9.757 ms
> 6  ae-7.r01.lsanca20.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.8.85)  10.292 ms  9.357 ms  12.291 ms
> 7  ae-17.r01.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.4.207)  22.541 ms
>    ge-101-0-0-3.r06.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.196.153)  72.412 ms
>    ae-17.r01.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.4.207)  22.167 ms
> 8  ge-101-0-0-3.r06.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.196.153)  72.510 ms  74.590 ms  
> 72.258 ms
> 9  ge-101-0-0-3.r06.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net<http://us.ce.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.196.154)  69.960 ms *  70.930 ms
> 10  * * *
> 11  * * *
>
> $ traceroute www.arin.net<http://www.arin.net>
> traceroute: Warning: www.arin.net<http://www.arin.net> has multiple addresses; using 199.43.0.43
> traceroute to www.arin.net<http://www.arin.net> (199.43.0.43), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1  router1.sb.becknet.com<http://router1.sb.becknet.com> (206.83.0.1)  1.010 ms  0.420 ms  0.536 ms
> 2  206-190-77-9.static.twtelecom.net<http://206-190-77-9.static.twtelecom.net> (206.190.77.9)  3.983 ms  0.732 ms  
> 0.686 ms
> 3  64-129-238-182.static.twtelecom.net<http://64-129-238-182.static.twtelecom.net> (64.129.238.182)  2.760 ms 
> lax2-pr2-xe-1-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net<http://lax2-pr2-xe-1-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net> (66.192.241.218)  2.816 ms 
> 64-129-238-186.static.twtelecom.net<http://64-129-238-186.static.twtelecom.net> (64.129.238.186)  18.203 ms
> 4  4.68.71.137 (4.68.71.137)  3.245 ms  2.877 ms  2.889 ms
> 5  * * *
> 6  ae-28.r00.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.9.93)  3.731 ms  3.483 ms  3.850 ms
> 7  ae-3.r01.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.5.29)  3.517 ms  3.433 ms  3.458 ms
> 8  ge-101-0-0-3.r06.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net<http://us.bb.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.196.153)  69.503 ms  68.021 ms  
> 68.072 ms
> 9  ge-101-0-0-3.r06.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net<http://us.ce.gin.ntt.net> (129.250.196.154)  67.075 ms  67.102 ms  
> 67.122 ms
> 10  * * *
> 11  * * *
>
> I recall ARIN had a DDoS attack a week or so ago. Does anybody know if this is a recurrence?
>
> -mel

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