Cloudflare's Down

[BiggerChungus]

And so is half the fucking internet.

 

[XYZpdq]

wow that was a scary ten minutes

 

[The Real SVP]

Well, we would not be posting here if it was still down.

 

[Brain.exe]

Well, we would not be posting here if it was still down.

I could still access this site when the others were down, maybe it has to do with user traffic. I'm no expert on this stuff.

 

[niggerfaggotretard]

I think it only affects amerilards? Was temporarily down for me also but clearly not for everyone.

Cloudflare tweet says "some regions".

https://twitter.com/CloudflareHelp/status/1284240964794511360 (archive: https://archive.vn/JmzGM)

 

[The Real SVP]

I could still access this site when the others were down, maybe it has to do with user traffic. I'm no expert on this stuff.

It seems the problem was DNS related. Maybe you and the cf server serving you still had the right addresses cached.

 

[SIGSEGV]

Works on my machine.

 

[XYZpdq]

I had outages for 4chan and desuarchive but not for here.

 

[Brain.exe]

I had outages for 4chan and desuarchive but not for here.

Same, which is what I was talking about.

It seems the problem was DNS related. Maybe you and the cf server serving you still had the right addresses cached.

Do the addresses differ based on website or region? Since the tweet says "some regions".

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ (https://archive.vn/0j7s8)

Data Centers impacted include: SJC, DFW, SEA, LAX, ORD, IAD, EWR, ATL, LHR, AMS, FRA, CDG

 

[The Real SVP]

Do the addresses differ based on website or region?

Yes. If you try to connect to a cloudflare protected site your request will be bounced around a bunch of different caches depending on your region and the region of the server you actually want to reach.

 

[tehpope]

I thought my internet was dying for a few minutes. It was like someone was downloading a ton of "Linux ISOs". Just very slow performance.

 

[Stasi]

So thats what that was. Couldn't get on here or a couple of emulation sites for about 15 min.

 

[nohull]

Let me know when our whole simulation's down.

 

[AnaV]

So who’s this going to be spun towards, place your bets now!

 

[Jump]

No problems here on TOR

 

[The Real SVP]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/

The outage occurred because, while working on an unrelated issue with a segment of the backbone from Newark to Chicago, our network engineering team updated the configuration on a router in Atlanta to alleviate congestion. This configuration contained an error that caused all traffic across our backbone to be sent to Atlanta. This quickly overwhelmed the Atlanta router and caused Cloudflare network locations connected to the backbone to fail.

 

[AnaV]

He did it, he finally did it.

“I’m cutting it down.”

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-2020/

Geez, you'd think that they'd hire people who know their shit and wait until the issue was fixed before updating a router. But i guess not.

 

[Irrelevant]

CloudFlare is actually pretty shit and has a major outage like every six months so I don't know why a business would use them. They only got popular due to the fact you can use them as a reverse proxy for free DDoS, DMCA, etc protection which is useful for hobby places like KF, piracy sites, etc.

There is no excuse for legit companies like Discord not to pay for some proper DNS hosting or load balancing or whatever they use CF for. What kind of person decides to use CF over something like AWS when downtime means lost money.

Even as a home user the outages are so common you can't use CF DNS servers without servers from someone else setup as an alternate. I can't remember a time when all of Google's DNS servers went down at once but it happened a couple times with CF.