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Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6 (linuxiac.com)

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@mander.xyz 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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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 4 months ago (13 children)

I know the Arch community is kind of rough, but any reason we know of that they're being targeted? Feels like a weird target for any major actors to prioritize for destabilization.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Anybody more tech-savvy than my grandma can order botnet attacks nowadays. And due to it's memed community it's an obvious target.

On a more tinfoil hat note: Arch is the base of SteamOS...

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

SteamOS builds off arch pretty rarely so unless they plan on ddosing for 6 months this doesnt impact steamOS at all.

Its probably someone who got banned from the community trying to make a statement.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know (or more honestly guessed so). It was meant to be a joke, hence the tinfoil hat reference ;)

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