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Cloudflare outage takes down Discord, Shopify, Politico and others – TechCrunch:
Many major websites and services were unreachable for a period Friday afternoon due to issues at Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service. The outage seems to have started at about 2:15 Pacific time and lasted for about 25 minutes before connections began to be restored. Google DNS may also have been affected.
Update: Cloudflare at 2:46 says "the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented." CEO Matthew Prince explains that it all came down to a bad router in Atlanta:
We had an issue that impacted some portions of the @Cloudflare network. It appears that a router in Atlanta had an error that caused bad routes across our backbone. That resulted in misrouted traffic to PoPs that connect to our backbone. 1/2
— Matthew Prince 🌥 (@eastdakota) July 17, 2020
[...] Discord, Feedly, Politico, Shopify and League of Legends were all affected, giving an idea of the breadth of the issue. Not only were websites down but also some status pages meant to provide warnings and track outages. In at least one case, even the status page for the status page was down.
Also at:
Cloudflare outage cuts off connections to Discord, DownDetector and others
The Cloudflare Blog
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:46PM (1 child)
It's a temporary move, until we can finally make DNS obsolete, in fact the whole client/server thing has to go if you really want to avoid all the tracking and redirection issues
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:41PM
agreed. DNS is old.
however it is governable and thus subject able to laws IF it is centralized. laws can be a powerful tools, for good and bad.
i assume it will be a uphill battle, considering the previous mentioned point AND the pervasive ignorance on how the internet works.
the power that are/be will not easily hand over such a powerful (and profitable!) tool.
the DoH initiative, whilst sold under the guise of freeing the user from spying by middle men DOMAIN name resolving providers, is only a half baked solution: the solution would be decentralization and giving each user/node a fixed domain corresponding to how each internet user MUST have a (variable) IP address.
for those that "don't get it" i recommend trying out tor, which gives you a FREE albeit random "domain" and then see what sudden superpowers you gain by being uniquely identifiable in the waste and generally opaque internet (think: send it TO ME).