> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:43 PM, Mel Beckman <m...@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 <i...@arin.net> > Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN DDoS Attack > Date: March 25, 2016 at 1:31:34 PM PDT > To: arin-annou...@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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