Arch Linux Under Week-Long DDoS Attack

The popular Arch Linux distribution is under a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting its main website, AUR, and forums. The attacker's motive is unknown. The Arch team is actively working with its hosting provider to mitigate the attack and evaluating DDoS protection options. While Arch is known for its technical difficulty, the attack causes inconvenience to the community. Users can obtain packages via the pacman-mirrorlist package or GitHub to work around service outages.