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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs and baskets etc etc
Good DNS practice (at least when I did system admin 10 years ago) was ALWAYS having a secondary at some other location/network. Why do we just put some info in Cloudflare and call it good these days?
Features, convience, pricing.
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#223Yesterday I noticed most of their lava lamps are out (which generate random bits). Perhaps these are a critical component. https://photos.app.goo.gl/g6eR8V2PSY3EVjCLA
Good guy cloudflare giving programmers an early weekend.
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#224Discord 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 noticed discord being down, so I went to check downforeveryoneorjustme, also down. So I figured I'd check NANOG mailing list, also down :P
Yep, we were down completely. We are quite dependent on Cloudflare (frontend + dns).
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#225What's all this about ”building a better internet”? Wide-reaching general service outages that are invisible to your status page are really not great.
I wonder if they'll cover why their status page is a steaming pile of garbage in the post-mortem?
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#226I don't think it's just Cloudflare; I just had a fun 10 minutes seeing servers start flipping on my Server monitoring service[1]. This has only happened once or twice per year, and is usually due to weird global DNS issues. [1] https://servercheck.in/ (To give an update, I'm seeing from my monitoring systems (about 15 points around the globe) sporadic outages for Microsoft, Apple, Reddit, Bing, Node.js, Twitter, Yaho…
a DNS issue wouldn't cripple all of the internet at once, with all the caching.
It was interesting that we saw our domains affected from the USA but from Mexico everything looked OK.
The crazier thing is that I tried to login to our CloudFlare account, it never sent me the 2FA code... I still haven't been able to login (Enterprise account)
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#227For people who reports this is down, which country are you in? Because all the reported sites works flawless from Norway (Europe) :-)
Australia, everything worked for me, speaking with my friends in the UK they are saying everything is down
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#228It 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 dependin…
Redundant DNS is possible, but challenging when you're making use of features like geo DNS that don't lend themselves to easy replication via zone transfer.
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#229"All systems operational" What's the point of a status page if it doesn't reflect the real status... It's either the status page goes down with everything else or the status page is wrong. Great. EDIT: Looks like it's accurate now, 20 minutes later.
There are status page providers that actually monitor services and automatically update. Cloudfare just doesn't use them.
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#230I am probably the only one who cares but even https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ is down
Yep, we are very dependent on Cloudflare :(