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Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6 (linuxiac.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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I know this isn’t the kind of news Linux fans were hoping to read on Christmas Day, but unfortunately, on a day meant for faith, kindness, and hope, others are choosing to act in exactly the opposite way.

Many of you probably remember the problems Arch faced just a few months ago due to massive DDoS attacks, which mainly affected the AUR. Sadly, just when it seemed those issues were behind, a new large-scale DDoS attack on Christmas Day once again made the distribution’s website effectively inaccessible.

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[–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Would it be possible for an average user like me to host the whole AUR and the whole Arch Wiki to make it available at times like this? I'm already seeding a couple of Arch isos (not pirate lingo).

I just want to help out.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    The AUR is already officially mirrored on GitHub, at least since the last attack (that I heard of).

    For the Wiki, I'm not sure if database dumps are provided for people to provide proper mediawiki mirrors. If they're not, you should propose the idea. It's a good one (as long as the dumps themselves are not hosted in one place that can be DDoS-ed itself).

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