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Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

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Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

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Post by skgsergio »

sigio wrote: post #2

Time to use a VPN in your docker pipelines ;) Or run your systems outside of Spain. Or can this be avoided by using an alternate DNS?

Alternate DNS doesn't help, they block at IP level.

Yes, they block IPs belonging to CDNs (CF including R2, BunnyCDN, CDN77, Fastly, Alibaba, Akamai even)...

Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

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Post by [deleted] »

mr_mitm wrote: post #19
utrack wrote: post #4

They block the whole of Cloudflare R2, I believe the Docker hub is just (heh) a collateral. When the La Liga match starts, everything that's proxied via CF (including zero access reverse tunnels) stops working. There's even a website made for checking if the match is on: https://hayahora.futbol/ You can check if your host is affected: https://hayahora.futbol/#comprobador&domain=docker-images-pr...

Why do they do that? Sorry, I don't speak Spanish.

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Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

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Post by chrismustcode »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #10
darkwater wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are planning to also block VPN providers during football matches, see https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/la-liga-w...

They are not "planning" to block VPNs. A technologically illiterate judge has ordered it, but there are no plans nor mechanisms to enforce it.

If they can block IPs of cloudflare what extra mechanisms would be needed to block VPN IPs?

Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

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Post by petcat »

sph wrote: post #20
Cpoll wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've got it backwards. Spain's ISPs are blocking Cloudflare and other CDNs because of LaLiga/football piracy. CloudFlare isn't doing anything here.

You are correct, but Cloudflare is still a cancer on the Internet.

Rampant bot traffic and scrapers are the real cancer. Until that goes away everyone is going to need cloudflare or some other bot firewall service.

Re: Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

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Post by danirod »

Heh, lucky you, at least you get a message. My ISP just drops traffic to the affected IPs. No ping, no traceroute, just a spinner in the browser until it says "page not found".

Every response and comment from LaLiga, the football organization responsible for this, has been so far that this is a minor issue that only affects a few bunch of nerds who talk about "docker images" or "github repositories" or "whatever that means".

Meanwhile, there are testimonies of smart home devices like anti-theft alarms or automatic doors, that stop working whenever there is a football match, because their backends rely on Cloudflare.

Last week, a woman asked for help on social media, as the GPS tracking app she uses to see where her father with dementia is, went offline during a match. It was getting late and he still wasn't back home, and she couldn't locate the tag he was wearing to find him: https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2026/04/05/laliga-d...

It's hard to say this, because no one should experience an event like this, but as stressful as these are, it's the only way to make the mainstream people care about this censorship. "I cannot pull a docker image" will never be on nightly news, but safety and personal security is a more powerful driver for discourses.

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