Cloudflare was down • Hacker News Board

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by icodestuff » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

sascha_sl wrote: post #13

DNS seems to be dead, if you have stuff in your cache and the site isn't low-TTL things still kinda work

Yeah this is absolutely killing us right now.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ehsankia » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #32

1f60c wrote: post #16

That page still shows "Cloudflare System Status: All Systems Operational" for me, but it's definitely down for me. Along with 1.1.1.1, which is... bad .

For me it says "Minor System Outage" for about 0.1s and then shows "All Systems Operational".

Everything works fine for me (Canada), am I missing something or is it over already?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ricardo81 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

Last I read about 7 million hosts are behind Cloudflare. Maybe around 3% of the web, but who knows if that counts for critical assets etc rather than pages served.

Shameful that so much of our decentralised web is so centralised and breakable in one place.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#94

Post by parliament32 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

caudamus wrote: post #36

Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1) is failing to respond to most/all queries, which I'm observing as the root cause of a bunch of connection issues (name lookup failure). Interestingly the same domains don't show up on google's (8.8.8.8) DNS at all.

8.8.8.8 is a caching resolver, it still needs to talk to CF's nameservers for authoritative records.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#95

Post by athesyn » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

Ironically https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is also down. HA

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ddevault » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

Will we take this as a much needed lesson about putting all of the internet's eggs into one basket? Probably not.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#97

Post by Lyrex » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

Deathmax wrote: post #42

belltaco wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://status.discord.com/ is down. Wow.

And that is why you host your status page on separate infra.

We're dealing with a deeper level problem here. Since a lot of the internet is relying on Cloudflare DNS at some part or another, even many backup solutions fail. Since so much of DNS is centralised in so few services, such outages hit the core infrastructure of the internet.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by jeffbee » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #19

Having DNS issues. Had to switch to Google's DNS (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4) as 1.1.1.1/etc were not resolving anything.

That only worked until all the records expired from Google's cache.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by searchableguy » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #27

Our TPU management page is also down: https://www.tensorfork.com/tpus Seems cloudflare took out a good chunk of the internet temporarily. Doesn’t HN use cloudflare? Why did it survive? (I haven’t looked for about a year, but I seem to remember HN being proxied behind CF at one point.)

Is there a status page for HN?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by jimz » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:31 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #27

Our TPU management page is also down: https://www.tensorfork.com/tpus Seems cloudflare took out a good chunk of the internet temporarily. Doesn’t HN use cloudflare? Why did it survive? (I haven’t looked for about a year, but I seem to remember HN being proxied behind CF at one point.)

Parts of the site that are behind CF like the API are down.