Fwd: [info () arin net: [arin-announce] ARIN DoS Attack]

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

[FYI. ---rsk ]

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> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:59:04 -0500
> From: ARIN <info () arin net>
> To: arin-announce () arin net
> Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN DoS Attack
>
> Starting at 10:53 AM ET on Tuesday, 24 January, a DoS attack began
> against ARIN. This was and continues to be a sustained attack against
> our provisioning services, email, and website. We initiated our DoS
> 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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