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)