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Cloudflare Website Downed
DataIdeas-Josh
Member, Patron Provider
in News
I really wonder on how much umph it took for this to happen.
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I’m sure Cloudflare will release the power in the coming days
Why/how did the Google error page show instead?
It wasn't defaced I take it. Does Google use Cloudflare?
I'm sure Cloudflare has a google cache point
Sounds like it wasn't a volumetric attack, but rather ones that targeted deliberate endpoints on the website. If it were a volumetric attack other CF infrastructure would be affected too.
The article says "Cloudflare’s website is deliberately hosted on separate infrastructure and cannot impact Cloudflare services."
Cloudflare.com is currently announced via 104.16.128.0/20 (and probably some other ranges, depending on where you resolve it from), which also hosts a lot of other websites. In a volumetric attack you either overload the entire network by flooding it with too much traffic or you do a basic L7 attack where you overwhelm the reverse proxy with too many connections. If either of these things happened to Cloudflare.com, other customers would be impacted because the entire 104.16.128.0/20 range would've been overloaded with traffic or all of Cloudflare's reverse proxies would've been overloaded with traffic.
Neither of these things happened. What they're referring to is that Cloudflare.com isn't hosted on the same servers that host Cloudflare's reverse proxies, which makes sense since Cloudflare.com is in some ways a "customer" of Cloudflare's reverse proxies.
Still brings up the question... Why did it still go down. I mean how does that look to the world when you are suppose to be a DDoS protection company and can't even keep your own website up... Even if the client side of things wasn't effected.
Aren't these the same guys that ddosed openais api as well? Interesting regardless of what might have actually happened
Edit: yeah, reading the article helps. Whoops
No website is 100 % safe from targeted attacks on certain endpoints.
No website is even safe from volumetric attacks, it's simply a resources game.
Dosen't make any sense, most big companies have been affected by DDoS at some point, it's the norm. Cloudflare won't be an exception. If anything, it's the ultimate flex, and probably tried by various groups all the time.
They were also back within a few minutes, and no other websites protected by them was affected.
And no, Cloudflare isn't "suppose to be a DDoS protection company" they ARE a DDoS proteciton company. One of the largest one, at that.
And do you as a provider seriously consider a few minutes of downtime to a website for years and years to be deserved of this comment by you:
I'll remember that next time your network experiences the slightest of hiccups.
cloudflare isn't a ddos protection company it's the largest datamining op ever done
Ok
What's going on with Cloudflare these days? Recently they seem to have issues every other day.
Death I hope.
Maybe somebody tasted blood after the last CF outage.
If you see the core systems fail if one DC has a power outage, maybe that certain someone was looking for more weak points.
I mean CF is a big target anyway.
They don't deserve these but maybe it's better to have those troubles because they can solve the issues and they are getting better and better.
Still exepcting?
I believe CF reached that market share and size which called "to big to fail". Gov infra relies on cf. If needed, cf could be spoon fed with pure gold from gov. Unlimited funds and laxed regulation.
Not expecting, just hoping. In my eyes "to big to fail" = not enough alternatives which makes it some sort of monopoly. And the Internet is getting more and more centralized which is bad.
Well, once you become big enough, it is a lot easier to destroy competition by buying it out, non-stop inovation and lobying. In this case only users decide how long cf will stay relevant, not competition.
Oh yeah I know, that is why I always blame consumers instead of capitalism or whatever else people blame stuff on.
I’m doing my part to ensure Cloudflare monopoly