Seems can’t reach the mirrors
sudo reflector --verbose --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
error: failed to retrieve mirrorstatus data: URLError:
Am i the only one or is there an issue ?
Regards
Just tried to do the same on another Arch based distro and also stumbled upon the same problem, Arch is still undergoing DDOS attacks I think. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
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Hi,
Just tested on arch and indeed no update possible at this moment. Thanks for your reply.
It make sense now why updating is not possible. Didn’t know that arch is under attack.
Yeah, it’s been months now.
so sad those DDOS attacks. I hope they will be online fast and can cope with those attacks.
Consequences for all arch based i guess.
To be more precise, you can’t get the mirror status page from the arch website, which is used by reflector to pick mirrors. You still can access the mirrors and update/install software.
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Yes. I just did.
https://archlinux.org/
https://archlinux.org/packages/
https://aur.archlinux.org/
are unreachable for me but
is.
a sudo pacman -Syu worked but if you use a sudo reflector to get your mirrors …
reflector service does’t work which is expected. Updating is still possible in a terminal.
Yeah i have been having issues for a week now. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Especially the “aur” fails to retreive information. And the status page reflects that. But today especially pacman failed to update the normal repo packages also. I had to try a couple times.
I had the same. It had to do with specific Arch Linux repo mirrors. After commented out a few and trying to update again everything went fast as normal.
I’m also still finding issues with updating the mirrors and or updating the system as it can’t reach the AUR sometimes too.
Earlier, I did only a pacman -Syu which avoided the AUR downness. Tried a minute ago, AUR worked. YMMV!
I assumed that the DDoS attacks on Arch stopped last month or so. Is that not a correct assumption?
hi,
Sadly not … it happened more than once. More forums have messages about AUR downness.
For status read message from keescase
In my opinion, these aren’t typical DDoS attacks — or at least not only that — but rather massive, uncoordinated crawling activity from AI data scrapers (LLM crawlers). Many of these bots recursively download the entire Wiki, AUR pages, or mirror indexes, without filtering or respecting rate limits. The result feels like a slow, continuous DDoS.
And why Arch? Because it has a hugely popular and completely open Wiki and AUR, filled with high-quality technical text — exactly the kind of content LLMs are hungry for.
I don’t know whether Anubis is working properly or not, but it clearly doesn’t seem to be doing a good job. In any case, this whole situation really should be regulated — it’s quite unfortunate to see open community resources being strained like this.
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Interesting about the A.I approach especially since Elon Musk is currently working on his A.I version of Wikipedia. Could this be Coincidence 
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Hi,
Very interesting opinion. Curious can something be done against LLM ?
Now it’s arch tomorrow another distro.
Thanks for sharing it’s a good day … learned something.
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Disclaimer: I am on the “ARM” branch.
My problem was that “mirror.archlinuxarm.org” was returning with 404 codes. The addresses it redirects were not online. So i changed the contents of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with the following:
Server = http://dk.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://de3.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://de.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://de4.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://eu.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://de5.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://gr.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://hu.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://jp.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://sg.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://tw2.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://tw.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://uk.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://ca.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://nj.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
Server = http://fl.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/$arch/$repo
No more 404 messages. Updates and installs work.
AI crawlers need to stop. CloudFlare has an interesting tech where they can poison AI crawlers data. Need to adapt it for EOS and Arch Wiki. Otherwise these GenAI LLMs will earn money for their profits on the back of community contributions without giving anything back. I mean does any AI company even contribute financially to open source projects whose Wiki they gobble up.
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