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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by Miner49er »

belltaco wrote: post #24
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…

https://status.discord.com/ is down. Wow.

It's hosted by statuspage.io, and their own status page was also down (metastatuspage.com). It is now back up, but their page shows the outage.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by oliverobscure »

rozab wrote: 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

If it impacts enough wallets, things might change. I'm not holding my breath though.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by scarby2 »

cm2187 wrote: post #117
Lyrex wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're dealing with a deeper level problem here. Since a lot of the internet is relying on Cloudflare DNS at some part or another, even many backup solutions fail. Since so much of DNS is centralised in so few services, such outages hit the core infrastructure of the internet.

A sudden disruption on a large number of services for everybody at once doesn't look like a DNS problem to me, with all the caching in DNS. It would fail progressively and inconsistently.

given that TTLs are usually very short now if your DNS server is configured correctly then caching shouldn't make a bit of difference.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by icey »

mxschmitt wrote: post #166

Site that use Discord, Linode, Patreon, npmjs, DigitalOcean, Coinbase, Zendesk, Medium, Gitlab (502), Fiverr, Upwork, Udemy and many more including 1.1.1.1 dns down. Ref: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1284239374809395200?s=19

Seeing a lot of people mentioning DO, but it has been up for me without any issues (small VPS in SF-2)

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by parliament32 »

rozab wrote: 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

Why not you? Just don't use CF. The more people stay away from CF, the better.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by clairegraham »

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.

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