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Re: Cloudflare was down

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post #153

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Sure you didn't misspell discord?

I've never even heard of the site before. Nor have I searched for "attorney" any time recently.

It looks like you mistyped it and landed on a domain with spammy redirects. They have all kinds of weird URLs and there's not always any connection to anything you did other than go to the wrong domain.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#243

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.

And the worst is if you try to raise concerns about cloudflare now it get brushed of as "cf already proxy half the internet, if it goes down our stuff will be minor concern".

Re: Cloudflare was down

#245
post #129

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Works for me.

I get a DNS servfail when resolving that DNS record, and many others: Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 ** server can't find status.discord.com: SERVFAIL So it's either not just cloudflare, or all those sites use cloudflare to host their DNS.

The latter.

    $ dig +short discord.com ns
    sima.ns.cloudflare.com.
    gabe.ns.cloudflare.com.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#246

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.

Same here. I'm working at an auto parts store looking though ASE parts sites and it was like well close up the store the catalogs are missing RN.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#247

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.

I consider DNS and the way how top level domains are handled to be one of the weakest parts of our current Internet design. We REALLY need a truly decentralized, distributed DNS system that is not owned by private entities.

https://handshake.org is pretty interesting.

Re: Cloudflare was down

#248
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 can live without creepy instant messengers, but its shocking just how much everything else relies on one, central system. And furthermore, why is it always cloudflair?

Re: Cloudflare was down

#250
post #136

We can't keep going on like this. The vulnerability of centralised internet infrastructure is a huge problem for everyone. Somebody, somewhere, really ought to sort it all out

> Somebody, somewhere, really ought to sort it all out

That could be the slogan for 2020

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