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Cloudflare outage is taking down parts of the internet

JosephFJosephF Member
in Outages

https://www.techradar.com/pro/live/a-cloudflare-outage-is-taking-down-parts-of-the-internet

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  • davidobrik567davidobrik567 Member

    duplicate

  • Tony40Tony40 Member

    X.com is down, LowEndTalk, LowEndBox.....

    https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

  • suutsuut Member

    down

  • temasektechtemasektech Member

    anything that is using cloudflare dns was all down.

  • WindsOfChangeWindsOfChange Member

    I cannot login to CloudFlare dashboard! How are you changing dns records?

  • JasonMJasonM Member
    edited November 2025

    I cant login to CF dashboard itself. its showing unauthenticated access error, plus getting all 404 error on their dashboard pages. Plus their support portal giving errors. My most sites are showing 500 error by cloudflare.. can't connect to the edge. Even their statuspage is showing service down.

  • davidedavide Member
    edited November 2025

    @temasektech said:
    anything that is using cloudflare dns was all down.

    VPS Price Tracker is up right now and uses CloudFlare for its primary and secondary DNS resolver. I was out in the yard an hour ago so IDK if anything happened to it (my monitoring works with IP addresses directly via resolv.conf, skipping the DNS)

    What free DNS resolvers are there? I'd set the secondary to something else.

  • host_chost_c Patron Provider, Top Host, Megathread Squad

    @davide said:

    @temasektech said:
    anything that is using cloudflare dns was all down.

    VPS Price Tracker is up right now and uses CloudFlare for its primary and secondary DNS resolver. I was out in the yard an hour ago so IDK if anything happened to it (my monitoring works with IP addresses directly via resolv.conf, skipping the DNS)

    What free DNS resolvers are there? I'd set the secondary to something else.

    Cisco Umbrella and OpenDNS

    208.67.220.220
    208.67.222.222

    Quad9
    9.9.9.9
    149.112.112.112

    AdGuard DNS
    94.140.14.14
    94.140.15.15

    Thanked by 7jsg davide nitrousdev sh97 Socheat nghialele fluffernutter
  • Tony40Tony40 Member

    Contabo main US website is down!

    Thanked by 1oloke
  • truemagictruemagic Member

    Thanked by 8OhJohn oloke equalz host_c TimboJones admax nghialele JasonM
  • anakaraanakara Member

    spaceship, namecheap also collapsed

    Thanked by 1nghialele
  • jndjnd Member

    @WindsOfChange said:
    I cannot login to CloudFlare dashboard! How are you changing dns records?

    What about changes through API? Anyway here we can see who actually cares about high availability (multiple nameserver providers, backup domains) and who relies on having all services from a single provider.

    Thanked by 2jsg stable_genius
  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    SSPF problem. Same Single Point of Failure.

    Thanked by 2OhJohn host_c
  • anakaraanakara Member

    It's working again

  • DPDP Administrator, The Domain Guy

    Most importantly, Cloudflare did not take @ehab's pants down.

    Thanked by 3TrK host_c admax
  • gbzret4dgbzret4d Member

    @DP said:
    Most importantly, Cloudflare did not take @ehab's pants down.

    That's the saddest part of all potential losses we will see after this day

  • saltKingsaltKing Member

    @dustinc with racknerd was down ...

  • shallownorthdakotashallownorthdakota Member

    Death to cloudflare

  • TrKTrK Member

    Cloudflare powering more that 1/3rd of internet is insane.

    Thanked by 3jnd tentor jfreak53
  • TangeTange Member

    yeah, lost $$ ads revenue

  • fiberstatefiberstate Member, Patron Provider

    @TrK said:
    Cloudflare powering more that 1/3rd of internet is insane.

    Amazing how much market share you can achieve if your product is useful, works most of the time and on a basic level, free.

    Thanked by 2TrK ransomshell
  • TrKTrK Member

    @fiberstate said:

    @TrK said:
    Cloudflare powering more that 1/3rd of internet is insane.

    Amazing how much market share you can achieve if your product is useful, works most of the time and on a basic level, free.

    Amazing is an understatement for this kind of exponential growth

  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @TrK said:
    Cloudflare powering more that 1/3rd of internet is insane.

    What if they reach 60% control? Will they get to set rules on how internet works?

  • TrKTrK Member

    @default said:

    @TrK said:
    Cloudflare powering more that 1/3rd of internet is insane.

    What if they reach 60% control? Will they get to set rules on how internet works?

    Perhaps they will, and just imagine when the US sanctions a company or country, and suddenly no internet for them...

    Thanked by 2default OpaqueRegistrant
  • defaultdefault Veteran

    @TrK said:

    @default said:

    @TrK said:
    Cloudflare powering more that 1/3rd of internet is insane.

    What if they reach 60% control? Will they get to set rules on how internet works?

    Perhaps they will, and just imagine when the US sanctions a company or country, and suddenly no internet for them...

    Something tells me we are not that far.

    Thanked by 2TrK OpaqueRegistrant
  • jfreak53jfreak53 Member, Patron Provider

    We weren't down, only use CF for one thing :lol: (shameless plug)

    Thanked by 2host_c Ivanm07
  • EthernetServersEthernetServers Member, Patron Provider

    From Cloudflare's CTO:

    I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in Cloudflare’s network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused.

    Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, the root cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic. The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare's services. The Cloudflare team was able to diagnose the issue and revert to a previous version of the file which restored services as of 14:30 UTC. There is no evidence of an attack or malicious activity causing the issue.

    That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back.

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dknecht_i-wont-mince-words-earlier-today-we-failed-activity-7396593844458307584-LYo5

  • jfreak53jfreak53 Member, Patron Provider

    Hmm, I'll be the one to say it so no one else has to. No way a config file on one server for a company that provides distributed DNS and other distributed services downs half the internet worldwide for 4 hours straight!

  • emghemgh Member, Megathread Squad

    @jfreak53 said:
    Hmm, I'll be the one to say it so no one else has to. No way a config file on one server for a company that provides distributed DNS and other distributed services downs half the internet worldwide for 4 hours straight!

    The real incident report will let us know. It probably isn’t as simple as a config file grew a bit too much. Everything going down can cascade into lots of other issues and when things start getting up the load of that can cascade as well in ways they’re currently finding out and writing up in their report.

    I don’t think he’s lying.

    Thanked by 2tentor COLBYLICIOUS
  • OpaqueRegistrantOpaqueRegistrant Member

    My sites were up because I don't use Cloudflare. You don't have to, too.

    Thanked by 4jfreak53 titus COLBYLICIOUS gremeyer
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