LWN: Comments on "Arch Linux recent service outages"

geez

smcv — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:55:16 +0000

I'll be interested to find out whether this is someone with a grudge against Arch intentionally doing damage as their goal, or a scraper botnet merely not caring whether they have accidentally implemented a DDoS as a side-effect. Either seems depressingly plausible.

geez

奇跡 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:12:33 +0000

Personally recommend HackerFactor's No-NOC Networking blog/video series, have found the advice very useful on my own services

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wtarreau — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:46:38 +0000

> (Two days ago I blocked a crawler botnet that had exceeded 1.5 *million* unique IP addresses)

These ones are really painful because in addition they're totally dumb and can retrieve tar.gz from gitweb pages etc. In fact they're stupidly reading more contents than humans would consume, and hope to provide knowledge to humans based on all this noise.

geez

pizza — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:41:40 +0000

> It's very sad that there are people DDOS'ing projects like Arch.

Welcome to the modern internet, where everyone and their dog has an "AI" crawler that routinely attempts to DDoS everyone, constantly.

(Two days ago I blocked a crawler botnet that had exceeded 1.5 *million* unique IP addresses)

geez

daeler — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:08:29 +0000

It's very sad that there are people DDOS'ing projects like Arch.