AFRINIC website and Whois webservice unreachable

Resolved
Resolved

As system has been stable for the last 3 days, we will resolve this incident. Once again we apologize for inconvenience caused

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Identified

We noticed some abnormal traffic on our WHOIS and Web services. Initial findings point to data harvesting via search bot. Measures have been taken to rate-limit such queries. Even though services are stable, we will still monitor the system before changing the status to resolved.

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Recovering

We've fixed the core issue, and are waiting for things to recover.

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David NJUKI
Investigating

Dear, AFRINIC website and WHOIS web interface are not reachable since 01:22am UTC. NOC team have notice some instability on the service availability. We are busy working at stabilizing the service. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

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Began at:

Affected components
  • WHOIS Database
    • WHOIS web queries
  • AFRINIC Web Sites
    • www.afrinic.net
    • meeting.afrinic.net
    • learn.afrinic.net
    • internetsummit.africa
    • Other Web Sites