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Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
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#782One of the things that i didnt like about cloudflare MITM as a service is their requirement if you want SSL/CDN that you must use their DNS. Overconcentration of infra within one single pint of disruption with no easy outs when the stack tips over. Sadly i dont see any changes or rethink to be more decentralised even after this outage.
to be clear, that's just a limitation on their free service. If you pay, you can keep your own DNS
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#783If anyone needs commands for turning off the CF proxy for their domains and happens to have a Cloudflare API token.
First you can grab the zone ID via:
curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '.result[] | "\(.id) \(.name)"'
curl -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
curl -X PATCH "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records/$RECORD_ID" -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"proxied":false}'
- SSL/TLS: You will likely lose your Cloudflare-provided SSL certificate. Your site will only work if your origin server has its own valid certificate.
- Security & Performance: You will lose the performance benefits (caching, minification, global edge network) and security protections (DDoS mitigation, WAF) that Cloudflare provides.
- This will also reveal your backend internal IP addresses. Anyone can find permanent logs of public IP addresses used by even obscure domain names, so potential adversaries don't necessarily have to be paying attention at the exact right time to find it.
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#784What would the Internet's architecture have to look like for DDOS'ing to be a thing of the past, and therefore Cloudflare to not be needed? I know there are solutions like IPFS out there for doing distributed/decentralised static content distribution, but that seems like only part of the problem. There are obviously more types of operation that occur via the network -- e.g. transactions with single remote pieces of e…
What would that look like? A network with built-in rate & connection limiting?
The closest thing I can think of is the Gemini protocol browser. It uses TOFU for authentication, which requires a human to initially validate every interaction.
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#785How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
And all of these outages happening not long after most of them dismissed a large amount of experienced staff while moving jobs offshore to save in labor costs.
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#786If someone wanted to learn about how the modern infrastructure stack works, and why things like this occur, where would be some good resources to start?
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#787Our national transit agency is apparently a customer.
The departure tables are borked, showing incorrect data, the route map stopped updating, the website and route planner are down, and the API returns garbage. Despite everything, the management will be pleased to know the ads kept on running offline.
Why would you put a WAP between devices you control and your own infra, God knows.
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#788Welcome to AOL.
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#789ChatGPT isn't working.
No suicides created by ChatGPT Today. Billions of dollars in GPU will sit idle. Sudden drop of Linkedin content...
World is a better place
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#790AWS, Azure, now Cloudflare, all within a month, are hit with configuration errors that are definitely neither signs of more surveillance gear being added by government agencies nor attacks by hostile powers. It's a shame that these fine services that everyone apparently needs and that worked so well for so long without a problem suddenly all have problems at the same time.
AWS was not a configuration error, it was a race condition on their load balancer's automated DNS record attribution that caused empty DNS records. As that issue was being fixed, it cascaded into further, more complex issues overloading EC2 instance provisioning.