Re: ARIN down?

On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Mel Beckman <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.:

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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://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-announce/2016-March/001963.html tl;dr: Massive DDoS. Usual affair. Welcome to the Internet.