[188476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Corbe)
Sat Mar 26 01:04:58 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Daniel Corbe <dcorbe@hammerfiber.com>
In-Reply-To: <FDC44491-1A52-411C-8EE9-1BC8010640E8@beckman.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 00:51:42 -0400
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: "<nanog@nanog.org>" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>=20
> I haven=E2=80=99t been able to connect to http://arin.net for several =
hours, but was able to open a ticket this morning. I=E2=80=99ve 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.:
>=20
> ...
>=20
> I recall ARIN had a DDoS attack a week or so ago. Does anybody know if =
this is a recurrence?
>=20
> -mel
An announcement went out on arin-announce yesterday (but you might not =
be able to follow the link if you can=E2=80=99t 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.
