This is just an information for users to let you know that (and why) several Fedora services are currently not reachable or only with a very bad connection.
Note that this issue is not on your side, and you do not need to do anything yourself on your Fedora. Please give the team some time to work on this.
Please see this for more:
Further information will be provided in the ticket.
Supplement to clarify some questions:
This is not a DDoS attack on Fedora systems, but on some of our infrastructure.
It is not relevant if you use Workstation or KDE or some other Fedora variant. It is relevant which service you want to use: e.g., Discourse is operated not on our own infra but provided by the Discourse people. So this is not affected. But services like koji or bodhi or the FAS-login seem affected (these are the services I experienced time outs / unreachable today), as we operate them ourselves on our affected infra.
Supplement 2: The issue should be solved! I thus unpin the topic.
Supplement 3: I have changed the category of this topic so that it can “disappear” in the haystack of new topics in the next days. No need to keep it at first place in announcements for weeks.
This is not a DDoS attack on Fedora systems, but on some of our infrastructure.
It is not relevant if you use Workstation or KDE or some other Fedora variant. It is relevant which service you want to use: e.g., Discourse is operated not on our own infra but provided by the Discourse people. So this is not affected. But services like koji or bodhi or the FAS-login seem affected (these are the services I experienced time outs / unreachable today), as we operate them ourselves on our affected infra.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.
DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by utilizing multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic. Exploited machines can include computers and other networked resources such as IoT devices.
From a high level, a DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination.
It is not affecting your computer directly, it affects the servers your computer probably needs to access. So try to update is not a good idea. Just using the computer to access other services is the alternative to spend your time and coming back when the data-jam against the infrastructure of fedora is over or lower.
Ah Thank you for posting this clarification. I was frustrated recently with discover being unable to update as it does normally. I can hold off with additional troubleshooting.
im still having an issue with updates via the store. 3 updates
Fedora KDE 5 platform
Fedora platform
org.fedoraproject.Platform.GL.default
they go through the update cycle but then just reappear in the update menu again
i have also tried update and/or upgrade via the terminal but as of yet no luck.
When trying to run a flatpak update on a fresh Silverblue installation, everything is updating fine now except for these two items with the following error. Is this still related?
:~$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
ID Branch Op Remote Download
1. [âś—] org.fedoraproject.Platform.GL.default f42 u fedora < 260.3 MB
2. [âś—] org.fedoraproject.Platform f42 u fedora < 497.3 MB
Warning: While fetching https://registry.fedoraproject.org/v2/f42/mesa/blobs/sha256:99de218ae89fb6dcc7df0f6aeb290e1a68707562f4cb33fcc360c20f42d10704: [47] Number of redirects hit maximum amount
Error: While fetching https://registry.fedoraproject.org/v2/f42/flatpak-runtime/blobs/sha256:af95e496a19003f4288d988a6acc12cd6668b4a6405fc5cdf78711a4db2f6b02: [47] Number of redirects hit maximum amount
Updates complete.
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