Re: ARIN down?

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

> 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
> I recall ARIN had a DDoS attack a week or so ago. Does anybody know if this is a recurrence?

Yes, it is.  I attach Mark’s notice about it from this afternoon.

                                -Bill



> 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)

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