As someone who've been through quite a few DDoS attacks, I'll say that the only sure-fire way I've found of dealing with a sufficiently large attack has been to take cover under an even larger shield. There's just not much you can do if your network pipes are completely swamped. That's why Cloudflare has been such a god-send for many companies. They have an incredible shield that makes even the biggest DDoS attacks irrelevant a lot of the time.
This has been going on for a week now. Can imagine how exhausting and stressful it must be for the admin team dealing with this! So just want to extend the offer again that there's help available, and that Cloudflare is a great option. Especially in the short term, so the attacks just stop, giving the team time to properly consider how they want to address the single-point-of-failure design of the AUR without the stress of an active outage. On August 18, 2025, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > my gut feeling tells me that the Arch Admins don't need advice, but > know > very well what they can do. > > As users and non-admins, we should always remember that even DDoS > countermeasures can be flooded by DDoS attacks ;)! > > We should just be patient. > > Regards, > Ralf
