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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by parliament32 »

karlmcguire wrote: post #14

"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.

Despite their update, I like how they're saying only their recursive DNS had "degraded performance", while authoritative is "operational". The entire reason everything blew up was because their authoritative nameservers weren't responding.

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Post by blisseyGo »

saagarjha wrote: post #43
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…

Hacker News is an excellent status page for those cases.

Out of curiosity, done HN use any CDN or other way of DDOS protection? dang?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by rgbrenner »

jrockway wrote: post #109

I don't use Cloudflare, but I do notice Cloudflare services being down. Right now, I can't get to my own website (hosted on DigitalOcean, not through Cloudflare), but Oh Dear claims it's up. So I suspect that the problem is closer to me than it is to DigitalOcean (or Cloudflare).

DO uses cloudflare for their DNS... both for digitalocean.com and for their DNS service.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by cortesoft »

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.

Yeah, but then your status page provider switches THEIR provider, and suddenly you are on the same infra again.

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Post by ghastmaster »

remmargorp64 wrote: post #193
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.

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.

I just recently ran across this. I wonder how much performance would be degraded.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7530014/authors#authors

> Unlike previous DNS replacement proposals, D 3 NS is reverse compatible with DNS and allows for incremental implementation within the current system.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by wcchandler »

clairegraham wrote: post #209

We were down (downforeveryoneorjustme.com) completely, but back up now (as of a few minutes ago). Our domain wasn't even resolving; we use Cloudflare for frontend and DNS. We had a surge of people checking if Discord was down on our site, then I noticed everything went down shortly after. Discord is still the top check right now. I can't ever remember hitting these kind of traffic numbers before.

I enjoy your service. Have you ever thought about expanding your offerings? I would love to see a recreation of "Internet Pulse"

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ingenium »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #104

It's unfortunate that both the primary and secondary cloudflare DNS is down. I just switched my secondary to google. This allows my internet to "work" during this time, but adds about 1s latency to resolutions. Presumably that's the time it takes my internal DNS resolver to try the secondary.

Considering running your own full resolver like unbound. Then you don't have to rely on a DNS provider like Google or Cloudflare. It's really nice not having the whole internet go down when Google or Cloudflare DNS is down.
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