Post #2026546
2026-05-01 19:49 UTC
What a bad day for #Ubuntu to be down and under attack, especially with everyone looking for details on copy.fail and cPanel.
Since people chasing down info on them keep running into Ubuntu issues, they seem to be under active attack:
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/?td=rt-3a
They are now returning localhost addresses for www.ubuntu.com:
$ host www.ubuntu.com
www.ubuntu.com has address 127.0.0.1
www.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address ::1
#ubuntu #DDoS #infosec
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@nygren@hachyderm.io 2026-05-01 19:51
Side-note relative to: $ host www.ubuntu.com www.ubuntu.com has address 127.0.0.1 www.ubuntu.com has IPv6 address ::1 it would be good for "us" (IETF?) to define a better way to indicate "this site is authoritatively unavailable for now". On IPv6 the discard prefix might be an option, but there's no clear option for IPv4.