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Arch Linux Website Hit by DDoS and Temporarily Limited to IPv6 (linuxiac.com)
submitted 1 day 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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[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 20 points 23 hours ago (3 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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

Arch aur mirror might be the searchable term you want to find out.

[–] badmin@lemmy.today 9 points 16 hours 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).

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago

That would be alot of work (and some space) but should be doable.

But just for your personal access to the wiki archwiki-offline and arch-wiki-search already exist (in the AUR).