Re: ARIN down?

[Daniel Corbe <dcorbe () hammerfiber com>]

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:43 AM, 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.:
>
> ...
>
> I recall ARIN had a DDoS attack a week or so ago. Does anybody know if this is a recurrence?
>
> -mel

An announcement went out on arin-announce yesterday (but you might not be able to follow the link if you can’t reach 
list.arin.net):

http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-announce/2016-March/001963.html

tl;dr: Massive DDoS.  Usual affair.  Welcome to the Internet.