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Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround


Something mysterious is happening to the popular Linux distro's website. Here's what we know so far.

Or perhaps, as has been suggested on some Reddit forums, some hacking group is trying out a DDoS attack on the lightly defended Arch sites. "We are aware of the problems this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. For AUR disruptions, it's a bit of a pain if you're not a regular git user, but you cloned packages directly from the GitHub Arch Linux mirror.

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