This is very funny (from the status update in status.archlinux.org): =D "Aside from that: Merry Christmas to everyone but the attackers (if you happen to celebrate it) :)"
I am always wondering the motivation for attackers to make this kind of attacks. Do they mail you and say if you send them some money, they would stop the attack, or something? 27 Ara 2025 Cmt 06:26 tarihinde Tony Rumans <[email protected]> şunu yazdı: > Love the optimism. I also hope Arch isn't a target. It's freedom > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2025, 9:22 PM David C Rankin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 12/26/25 5:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > When someone repeatedly scratches your vehicle or slashes your tires, >> > then such a specific question arises. In the case of typical Internet >> > oddities, such a question rarely makes sense. >> >> Thanks Ralf, >> >> I guess it's a lack of perspective and a matter of scale. Never waded >> into the dark-side of the net, have no interest. I hail from an era of >> phone books, when the 1 phone in your house was permanently affixed to >> one wall and was owned by the telephone company. >> >> I hope 2026 is kinder to Arch services than the past year, and that >> cloud providers figure out how to defend better against such attacks -- >> so that the services they peddle to companies like Arch - work. >> (reasonable downtime allowed for -- gremlins). >> >> If this is truly a lucky IP in some range that is a repeated target, >> may be a new IP out of the lucky range is in order :) >> >> -- >> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >> >
