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Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by michel-slm » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

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…

Freenode's IRC servers were down which was unexpected for me. I was expecting old-school communication networks to not have a dependency on Cloudflare.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by cls59 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

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.

Yeah, Pihole made it super easy to cut over to Quad-9 once I figured out what the problem was.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by pgrote » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

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?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ATsch » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

maxk42 wrote: post #217

alex_young wrote: post #87

Yesterday I noticed most of their lava lamps are out (which generate random bits). Perhaps these are a critical component. https://photos.app.goo.gl/g6eR8V2PSY3EVjCLA

I'm sure you were joking but they actually are: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

Despite them actually mixing it into their entropy pools, the lava lamps are still entirely for show. The noise of the camera sensor itself is going to contribute orders of magnitude more entropy than the slow movement of the lamps. It's not completely a fake stunt, but it's certainly headline-optimized.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by xen2xen1 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

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.

DNS is decentralized, it's just not when everyone goes with one big service.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by askbill » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

Felt like a BGP issue.

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by ivalm » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

AdamGibbins wrote: post #262

blisseyGo wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's hosted on AWS, you don't need DDoS protection, just a big wallet.

The nameserver is aws but IP4 points to “m5 computer security”

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by mathattack » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

Interesting. They had an outage in the midst of a negotiation I was a part of. Are they less stable than Akamai and the others?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by acid__ » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #270

acid__ wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As one would expect, it says "degraded performance" instead of "down" lol

Tested with tor and it's right. Some exit nodes aren't affected.

Hm, maybe it's just the SRE in me talking, but if major chunks of the internet being entirely inaccessible doesn't count as an "outage", what does?

Re: Cloudflare was down

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Post by e40 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

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…

Crazily, my local name resolution started failing, because I have these names servers: 192.168.0.99, 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8. The first does the local resolution, but macOS wasn't consulting it because 1.1.1.1 was failing?? Crazy. When I removed 1.1.1.1 from the list, everything started working.