The Arch Linux team has once again been forced to respond to a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting its AUR repository infrastructure. As a result, DDoS protection has been enabled for aur.archlinux.org to help mitigate the ongoing disruption.
While this measure helps keep the AUR website accessible, it has introduced a significant side effect: pushing to the AUR is currently not possible.
Okay that’s what was happening… yay
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I installed arch to a VM yesterday for some stuff and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t get Paru or Yay going and well…there ya have it. spent like an hour trying to figure out why they both weren’t working.
It’s a good habit when if you’re hitting something weird and it just doesn’t work to check a status page. It’s saved me so much time over the years. Here it is for Arch AUR
But… why? I mean, who’s targeting Arch? Sounds like the Arch team has some info that they won’t release (for now), but this is so confusing to me…
Nobody has been claiming responsibility. Some of the AUR forum peoples think it’s butthurt malware devs who got caught uploading malware, but it’s just a shot in the dark.
Been on and off for months now.
I wonder if it could be a state actor? I can imagine that the powers that be in MANY countries could be motivated to keep users away from operating system software that isn’t spyware.
If it’s blocking AUR updates, it could be an attempt to keep some patches to certain exploits from going out? But it seems unlikely that the cost of a ddos is worth the tiny number of possibly vulnerable AUR users out there…
If people just used Hannah Montana Linux then we wouldn’t have these problems.
