Aren't spikes in unusual traffic the exact thing Cloudflare is supposed to protect you from?
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They protected the endpoints. They just weren't able to route traffic to them. Id bet it takes a MUCH larger ddos to bring cloudflare to its knees vs your average website.
From a Cloudflare customer's point of view, I don't care if my site is down from a DDOS or a Cloudflare outage, but the latter seems to happen more often.
From another cloudflare customer, if our sites still work internally it's marginally better than them being broken both inside and outside the org as they would be if they were ddosed directly. I guess it depends on what kind of services you're running.
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ostensibly sure. But it's like car insurance. People pay them no matter what so why bother doing what they promised?
Traffic spikes, on the Internet? One in a million chance! Now tow cloudflare outside the environment and call it a day.
Amazon is now saving Americans from the crippling debt most of them seem to get into to drive a shiny box.. I wasn't expecting that.
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My bad, I started downloading The Lord of the Rings movies - Extended Edition. Sorry!
How many times have I told you not to download movies or games in the middle of the day? You'll tie up the phone lines.
Ok mum I stopped torrenting. You can use the phone again.
You can tell we're all old as fuck Millennials, because nobody else would make this joke. Lol.
I can't even explain dial up modems to my son because I'd have to start by explaining what phone lines are.
I had a Gen Z person ask me how I got a "3D printer save button" when I had a floppy disk for some reason.
Indeed.
"...you must first invent the universe".
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I think that's a big part of why I like lemmy.
There are plenty of tech-savvy critical thinkers in the younger generations, but the naïveté, tech illiteracy, and lack of critical thinking ability of the average internet commenter / poster is appalling.
I've seen it just get worse and worse.
The internalized self censorship, the laissez faire attitude towards digital privacy, just pure fucking idiocy.
Wake me up when September ends.
Sorry friend, it is Eternal.
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No longer relevant pro tip - an extra pair was typically left at the incoming service, which was used for testing. It worked as a second line and didn't interupt the main pair, allowing for a functionally free second phone line (that didnt have incoming service).
Perfect for modem use!
I had fully forgotten the phrase "you'll tie up the phone line!" And I just had a nam style flashback of sneaking internet time during the day when my mom was at work, and praying that no one tried to call
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Lies, the internet isn't tubes, it's a small box
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Which AI scraper went rogue this time?
Did I miss something? Is everyone downloading the Epstein files today?
EDIT: Cloudflare made a blog post explaining it as a malfunction.
My original post:
It's very normal for countries to DDOS each other to test their limits, and if it could be incorporated in an attack.
And yes, of course the US is also testing this against other nations.
It could also just be a malfunction or someone acting independently. Who knows.
Every DDoS that hits Cloudflare is bigger than the previous one. There's bound to be one that they couldn't instantly mitigate.
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"You see, half the internet went down because people used our services a little too much."
Ok wtf???
How does cloudflare not have DOS detection?
That was based on anecdotal evidence, at the time. The real cause was Cloudflare shooting themselves in foot again because of a bad config file.
The bad config file is somewhere in the middle of the chain of causality.
They changed database permissions, revealing a dormant bug in a database query, leading to config files being generated badly with duplicate lines, making them too large for intake by the bot detection service, which didn't have good input validation and made the process panic instead, ruining the service.
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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike
Just like my 14-year-old self who "mysteriously" bricked his parents' PC by totally SFW Web usage.
Capitalists: "All lines must go up!" ... (Traffic line goes up a little bit) Capitalists: "Not like that!"
All the people trying to cash out their Dr. Pepper points?
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