Arch Linux has confirmed an active DDoS attack during Christmas, with IPv4 access to its website unavailable.

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.

  • SteveTech@aussie.zone
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    10 hours ago

    The botnet’s code probably doesn’t support IPv6.

    Is there something about it that makes it more resilient to DDOS?

    While archlinux.org doesn’t do this, you can have multiple A and AAAA records which can provide DNS based load balancing, and IPv6 is easier to do that with since you usually get allocated a whole prefix. Of course that only helps to distribute the load, if your internet connection is the bottleneck then it won’t help.