Re: [AFMUG] What does somebody hope to accomplish DDoSing ARIN?

[Brian Meredith]

Probably trying to extort some IPv4 address space from them!

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Eric Kuhnke  wrote:

> Hopefully not just for the lulz...
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> Starting at 4:00 PM EDT on Friday, 29 April, a DDoS attack began against
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> mitigation plan and are in the process of mitigating various types of
> attack traffic patterns. All our other public-facing services (Whois,
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Re: [AFMUG] What does somebody hope to accomplish DDoSing ARIN?

[That One Guy /sarcasm]

Probably a distraction while they do something else
On Apr 29, 2016 4:39 PM, "Brian Meredith" 
wrote:

> Probably trying to extort some IPv4 address space from them!
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Eric Kuhnke 
> wrote:
>
>> Hopefully not just for the lulz...
>>
>>
>> *To: arin-annou...@arin.net 
>> Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN DDoS Attack
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>> Sender: arin-announce-boun...@arin.net 
>> Errors-To: arin-announce-boun...@arin.net 
>>
>> Starting at 4:00 PM EDT on Friday, 29 April, 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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