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Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

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Post by rosswilson »

danShumway wrote: post #50

Don't want to go off topic, but if I want to prevent my website going down because of stuff like this in the future, will having back up DNS entries solve the problem? I know DNS will fall back if it can't reach a service, but would a 502 trigger that?

If you received a HTTP 502 then DNS must've already resolved. Browsers typically will do a DNS lookup, and then try establishing a TCP connection to one of the returned hosts. Its only if it can't establish a TCP connection to a host will it (sometimes) try another host from the DNS response.

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

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Post by lol768 »

danShumway wrote: post #50

Don't want to go off topic, but if I want to prevent my website going down because of stuff like this in the future, will having back up DNS entries solve the problem? I know DNS will fall back if it can't reach a service, but would a 502 trigger that?

No, I don't believe it would.

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Post by SteveNuts »

danShumway wrote: post #50

Don't want to go off topic, but if I want to prevent my website going down because of stuff like this in the future, will having back up DNS entries solve the problem? I know DNS will fall back if it can't reach a service, but would a 502 trigger that?

No, you'd need to use an application-aware DNS provider like Route 53 that could detect the failure.

Backup DNS entries won't help, what you need is to use multiple DNS providers and add them all to your NS records

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

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Post by apple4ever »

ratsimihah wrote: post #53
kreetx wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the site itself that's totally fine, and the status page is separate as it should be, too.

Fair. Some service recently had their status page hosted on the same server that went down, that was funny.

Discord's status page is also down haha

Re: Cloudflare Network Performance Issues

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Post by btown »

tmlee wrote: post #3

So it seems... Even https://cloudflare.com/ itself is down

More importantly, their admin dashboard is down. It's impossible to bypass their "orange cloud" proxies and send traffic directly to our hosting. That they can't flip a switch and have their nameservers send dash.cloudflare.com to a separate piece of redundant infrastructure is mind-boggling.
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