Cloudflare Outage

Taken down any of my external homelab stuff since I use cloudfare for reverse prozy

How do these big companies keep screwing up like this? I always feel there is more to the story than what they tell us.

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The sheer irony.

It depends on what region or MZR you're connecting to for Cloudflare, I think. Everything was up for me, I got one Cloudflare error yesterday on a single site.

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I always feel there is more to the story than what they tell us.

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There's usually not. Well, not anything 99% of the public would understand:

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A Cloudflare spokesperson told The Register that the incident began at 1120 UTC and was fully resolved at 1430. They said: "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.

"To be clear, there is no evidence that this was the result of an attack or caused by malicious activity.

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There's usually not. Well, not anything 99% of the public would understand:

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No I get it, I have worked in computer networking for 27 years. I'm just surprised that for as much redundancy is built into their systems. I mean "The file grew beyond an expected size of entries" is a poor excuse. A multi-billion dollar corporation didn't take this into account - or have a proper failover?

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There's usually not. Well, not anything 99% of the public would understand:

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The file grew beyond an expected size of entries and triggered a crash i

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translation: the log file got too big.