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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by dmarlow »

ksec wrote: post #331
snazz wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't think so. They used to use Cloudflare but stopped. To my knowledge, it's a single server without a database (using the filesystem as a database).

So HN is serving 5.5M page view daily (excluding API access ) on a single server without CDN and without a database? Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong. Edit: The number is from Dang [1] > These days around 5.5M page views daily and something like 5M unique readers a month, depending on how you try to count them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

For all my sibling comments, there is also context to be aware of. 5.5m page views daily can come is many shapes and sizes. Yes, modern web dev is a mess, but situation is very different from site to site. This should be taken as a nice anecdote, not as a benchmark.

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Post by newhotelowner »

spiritplumber wrote: post #192
rickyc091 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. Rebooted the router and modem thinking it was me, but my phone was still on wifi then realized it was probably my cloudflare DNS.

Pihole is your friend.

I have a pihole. It didn't help.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by MertsA »

pgrote wrote: post #303

Did anyone else see their ATT internet go down? The DNS issues started and then the Pace 5268AC rebooted. I don't use cloudflare for dns. Does ATT's backend?

On the contrary, ATT actually squats on the CloudFlare DNS IP address. IIRC that modem is one of the affected ones where it uses 1.1.1.0/24 internally. You shouldn't even be able to use CloudFlare DNS normally.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by LoSboccacc »

BrianHenryIE wrote: post #266
dafoex wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Cloudflare is free and has a nice UI. I manage ~40 domains from ~six domain registrars through it, the consistency is great. The caching is a bonus.

idk about the UI the redesign with the forced collapses and extra clicks everywhere is annoying when handling a multitude sub domains plus their let's encrypt text entries I'm there mostly for the freebies.

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

Exuma wrote: post #326

Aside from this one issue, is switching to 1.1.1.1 a good idea in your guys experience? Right now I just realized I hvae the DNS for my ISP which is probably how they inject bullshit 404 pages full of ads. What is the fastest/best public DNS in your guys experience?

For us, it's cloudflare. Our ISP is connected to KCIX, and cloudflare apparently has 1.1.1.1 servers in Kansas City. No other free DNS provider is as quick, for us. 18ms or so RTT, as opposed to the WISP's internal latency of ~10ms. Central Kansas.

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Post by pepemon »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #299
anderskaseorg wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

8.8.8.8 is Google and is down in addition to Cloudflare. 8.8.4.4 was still up.

8.8.8.8 is a caching resolver and it wasn't down. Do you understand how caching resolvers work?

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

randomstring wrote: post #298

What luck, I chose today to install a new piece of network gear. I thought I had managed to totally FUBAR my network. DNS was failing, "ping 1.1" (my current goto test "Am I connected to the internet?" as it requires the fewest keystrokes and hits the Cloudflare DNS 1.0.0.1) failed and I just assumed it was my fault. Backed out my changes, and discover in fact, the internet was down.

Ping 1.1... thanks for that!

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Post by LoSboccacc »

cortesoft wrote: post #324
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 don't understand why the big companies don't always have at least two CDN providers, so they can failover to another one if something like this happens. I know a lot of big companies do, but I am always surprised when you see ones that don't.

the DNS itself is not as easy to duplicate across multiple provider, with CF DNS down having a backup CDN wouldn't have helped

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by bithaze »

jeremyjh wrote: post #44
heliodor wrote: post #4

Is it me, or has this been happening way too frequently for them lately?

Honestly at their scale once a decade would be too frequent. Too many eggs in this particular basket.

Once a decade doesn't seem realistic. At some point you get diminishing returns chasing as many mines as possible.
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