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.
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Cloudflare outage cuts off connections to Discord, DownDetector and others
The Cloudflare Blog
(Score: 4, Informative) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:14PM
They managed to insert themselves between your browser and so many servers, they hold a large portion of the web by the balls. And that's not even mentioning the amount of traffic they're able to silently monitor and exploit, unbeknown to the unsuspecting visitors. And the worst thing is, most people are totally unaware of it because it's all in the background.