ARIN down?

Sat Mar 26 04:51:42 UTC 2016

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
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> 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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> ...
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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.