Re: ARIN down?

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Yeah, lists.arin.net<http://lists.arin.net> is down too, despite being hosted elsewhere. The netvermin apparently are 
being thorough. Still, there are many ways to broadly distribute static content like mailing lists.

 -mel

On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Corbe <dcorbe () hammerfiber com<mailto:dcorbe () hammerfiber com>> wrote:


On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org<mailto: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://list.arin.net/>):

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

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