> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:43 PM, Mel Beckman <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN DDoS Attack
> Date: March 25, 2016 at 1:31:34 PM PDT
> To: [email protected]
>
> 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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