Cloudflare

2022 - 6 - 21

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Cloudflare outage knocks popular services offline (TechCrunch)

A Cloudflare outage has hit several popular services including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly. Other popular services that have ...

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Cloudflare outage breaks large swathes of the internet (The Verge)

The problems appear to have started at around 2:30AM ET. As of 3:20AM ET Cloudflare reports that “a fix is being implemented.” The issues are most problematic ...

Cloudflare has experienced similar issues in the past such as in July and August 2020. Multiple Verge staff members found they were unable to access any websites at all during the outage as a result of using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. I found that simply switching back to using my ISP’s default DNS settings resolved most of my issues.

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Cloudflare service hit by 'widespread issues', but a fix is coming (ZDNet)

Cloudflare is one of today's major content delivery networks (CDNs). The US firm also provides Distributed Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection to online domains, ...

Furthermore, the company said the incident impacted connectivity in Cloudflare's network in "broad regions," leading to 500 errors. It appears that service has been restored to some websites and online platforms taken offline by the problem in Cloudflare's network. On Tuesday morning, a number of websites and online services suddenly went down including Feedly, Cloudflare itself, blogs, cryptocurrency services, and more.

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Cloudflare outage briefly takes down many websites: All you need to ... (The Indian Express)

A brief outage at Cloudflare-a popular CDN choice for many companies, took down multiple websites across the globe earlier today, many of which were left ...

Indianexpress.com can confirm that many websites including Canva, Streamyard and the Nothing website are now working after being briefly down. These included websites like Discord, Canva, Streamyard and even the official website for London-based startup Nothing. Cloudflare quickly acknowledged the outage via a tweet, and announced soon after that it was working on a fix.

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Cloudflare down: Discord, Twitter, NordVPN, Google, Coinbase ... (The Scotsman)

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Cloudflare says it has now issued a fix for the problem and is 'monitoring the results'. Cloudflare has since said it has identified the issue that caused the outage with several businesses confirming that their site was online following the resolution and is “monitoring the results”. The tech company claims to have now identified the issue and is working on a fix.

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[Update: Coming back up] Large parts of the Internet are down due ... (XDA Developers)

Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure provider, commonly used for its CDN (content delivery network) and DNS services, and other allied services. CDNs cache ...

As the status website mentions, the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. This decreases the loading time for the page. Large parts of the Internet are down, and the cause for it appears to be an outage at Cloudflare. Affected websites and services include Discord, Omegle, Feedly, Zerodha, Groww, Upstox, Buffer, Medium.com, and more.

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Cloudflare outage impacts several regions; AWS is also down (The Hans India)

The Hans India site was down today around 12:10 pm due to a technical issue with Cloudflare, an internet infrastructure provider.

All the sites on Cloudflare CDN and AWS are down. User reports at Downdetector indicate possible problems at Cloudflare. Cloudflare outage impacts several regions; AWS is also down. Cloudflare outage impacts several regions; AWS is also down

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Cloudflare outage disrupts sites including Google, AWS and Twitter (Tech Monitor)

Outage at US content delivery network Cloudflare causes service issues for websites across the internet, including Google, AWS and Twitter.

According to the Bank of England, 65% of UK firms use the same four cloud providers. Today's outage is not the only reason Cloudflare has been in the headlines recently. The proximity of these data centres to users means websites load faster, improving the user experience. Cloudflare is a content delivery network and edge computing provider that many web services use to improve performance and security. “Everything in this space lately has been about performance and making things faster,” he said. The incident impacts all data plane services in our network.”

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Cloudflare outage knocks hundreds of websites offline (The Independent)

The National Rail Enquiries website appeared to be among those affected on the first day of rail strikes across Britain.

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Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams (The Register)

Google, EFF, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have filed court documents supporting Cloudflare after it was sued for refusing ...

- Vulnerability - Trojan - Cybersecurity Also on June 16, Google submitted a letter expressing its concern about the scope of the injunction. Its lawyers noted in court filings [ Earlier this year, a handful of Israel-based media companies took Israel.tv to court, accusing it of streaming TV and movie content it had no right to distribute.

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Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (BleepingComputer)

Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by ...

This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically. 3:56 UTC: We deploy the change to our first location. This is when the incident started, as this swiftly took these 19 locations offline. "Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic. "This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations," the Cloudflare team added. This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations."

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Half the internet died while you were sleeping. Here's what happened. (Mashable)

A Cloudflare outage caused many websites and services to go down today, including Discord, DoorDash, and League of Legends.

The incident impacts all data plane services in our network." It isn't clear exactly what caused the outage, with Cloudflare's official Twitter saying only that the "issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented." Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab)

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Cloudflare Outage Causes Major Global Internet Disruptions (CRN)

Company acknowledges interruption was due to 'our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.' By Jay Fitzgerald June 21, 2022, ...

In its blog post, Cloudflare wrote: “Although Cloudflare has invested significantly in our MCP design to improve service availability, we clearly fell short of our customer expectations with this very painful incident. “In this time, we’ve converted 19 of our data centers to this architecture, internally called Multi-Colo PoP (MCP).” “Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic,” the company said. This was our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.” “It wasn‘t an issue caused by someone else.” “

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Cloudflare Outage Knocks Hundreds of Websites Offline (Infosecurity Magazine)

The list is extensive and includes technology giants such as Discord, Medium, Coinbase, NordVPN and Feedly.

“Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers. This was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations.” Shortly after that, the company posted a series of Twitter posts confirming its team was actively working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.

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Huge Swaths of the Internet Go Down During Cloudflare Outage ... (Gizmodo)

Discord, Medium, and DoorDash experienced problems. Cloudflare reported the outage lasted about two hours.

A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Update, 4:45 a.m.: Cloudflare now reports that everything has returned to normal and “all systems” are “operational.” Other websites with issues appear to be League of Legends, Crunchyroll, and Mediacom, according to Down Detector.

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Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet (The Register)

The incident began at 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific Time) and it took until 0742 UTC (0042 Pacific) before the company managed to bring all its datacenters back online ...

Large cloud providers have to manage a vast degree of complexity and moving parts, significantly increasing the risk of an outage." It is completely unsustainable for an outage with one provider being able to bring vast swathes of the internet offline. Things still seemed OK... However, by 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific), the change hit the MCP-enabled locations, rattled through the mesh layer and... Moving forward to 0617 UTC (2317 Pacific) and the change was deployed to one of the company's busiest locations, but not an MCP-enabled one. What had happened was a change to the company's prefix advertisement policies, resulting in the withdrawal of a critical subset of prefixes. During this time a variety of sites and services relying on Cloudflare went dark while engineers frantically worked to undo the damage they had wrought short hours previously.

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Cloudflare, Microsoft 365 suffer major outages | IT World Canada ... (IT World Canada)

Two major IT providers suffered service problems this morning, causing CIOs and CISOs hours of grief. A huge outage affected more than a dozen of content ...

“This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” officials said. A change in policy can mean a previously advertised prefix is no longer advertised, known as being “withdrawn”, and those IP addresses will no longer be reachable on the Internet. Over the last 18 months Cloudflare has been trying to convert all of its busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture, the company said. This mesh allows Cloudflare to easily disable and enable parts of the internal network in a data center for maintenance or to deal with a problem It began around 2:34 a.m. Eastern time and was reported by the company to be resolved about an hour and a half later. That expanded to the realization that multiple Microsoft 365 services were experiencing delays, connection and search issues.

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Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out 'Significant Portion' of Global Traffic (Channel Futures)

Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage early Tuesday that knocked out a significant portion of its global traffic. It was fixed in roughly an hour.

“While cloud services can undoubtedly be highly advantageous for companies, the ever-present jeopardy of a severe outage is there.” “This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” it said. “We have already started working on the changes outlined … and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again.” Given Cloudflare’s scale and the percentage of the internet that relies on our network, when we have problems it is vital that we are open and transparent about what happened, why it happened, and what we’re doing to ensure it doesn’t happen again.” Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on Cloudflare [for approximately one hour]. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now. Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage early Tuesday that knocked out a significant portion of its global traffic.

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