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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by awinder »

NextDNS got taken out by this, id been really happy with it up until now. And unfortunately “dns service went down” has a wide enough blast radius at home now that it’s a real pain.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by rgbrenner »

Reminder for firefox users: Firefox uses DNS over HTTPS and the default is cloudflare. If you're having DNS issues, you need to disable it until cloudflare is back up.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by qeternity »

RL_Quine wrote: post #123
cm2187 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a DNS issue wouldn't cripple all of the internet at once, with all the caching.

Most sites set the absolute minimum TTL for every record, for no reason. There’s a lot less caching than you’re thinking.

Eh, what? There are many good reasons to have low TTL DNS...this exact outage being one of them. Update your records to go direct to your servers, and not through Cloudflare and bam you’re back up. Doesn’t work if your TTL is 86400

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by jeremyjh »

ashleyn wrote: post #107

It really defies the original vision of the internet to have so many services depend on a single company. Almost every news site I was reading dropped off at once. I thought for a second that I lost internet in my own house.

Yes its really odd that core backbone providers can go down and everything works like its supposed to. Even trans-pacific cables can be cut and things will usually work with only increased latency. But there is not much redundancy for many companies at this layer; having redundant DNS providers is I'm sure possible but not something we think about very often, and of course many of the sites that are down are depending on the proxy and DOS mitigation services.

On my home network I use Google as a backup DNS provider so the whole internet didn't go dark for me, but I don't have a backup DNS host for my company's DNS records.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by jorgenphi »

ljm wrote: post #135
rococode wrote: post #9

Discord is entirely down right now, both the website and the app itself. Amusingly, a lot of the sites that normally track outages are also down, which made me think it was my internet at first. Downdetector, monitortheinternet, etc. Lots of other big sites that are down: Patreon, npmjs, DigitalOcean, Coinbase, Zendesk, Medium, GitLab (502), Fiverr, Upwork, Udemy Edit: 15 min later, looks like things are starting to…

I wonder if they are all using Cloudflare's free DNS stuff or if they're paying for business accounts? My stuff is on Netlify (for the next week or so) and the rest is on a VPS bought from a local business who isn't reselling cloud resources. I'm kinda glad I moved all my stuff from cloudflare.

I think it's going to be everyone. Some of my free sites are dead, but also huge enterprise Cloudflare users (Discord/Patreon/4chan) are also dead.
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