Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted
-
It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It's become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 03:43 zuletzt editiert vonIt also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"
-
Hmm.
I'm not familiar with the constraint.
I assume that the way that this works is that I host content at www.foo.com and they have their nameserver resolve www.foo.com to different IPs based on the geolocation of the browsing user's IP.
Is it possible to convert www.foo.com to a CNAME that can be redirected away from their nameservers? Like, I make www.foo.com be a CNAME directed at www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com. They own www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com, they serve A or AAA queries there on their nameservers. But if I want fallback, I update the CNAME to point at www.foo-backup-cdn.com, which is served by a different CDN.
Are there technical barriers to that, do you know?
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 04:21 zuletzt editiert vonThe way CDNs and virtual hosts work in general is to read the
host
field in the HTTP header, otherwise unless you dedicate an IP for each domain / "web site" there would be no way to know what to serve.The issue is if you put the CNAME of foo
www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com.
then it will just resolve to whatever the A/AAAA record is for that, and send the host ofwww.foo.com
– which they will only service if that domain is hosted with their nameservers (they run automated checks to make sure you're actually doing so).
So there isn't really an easy way to just give cloudflare some subdomain, unless you pay them $$,$$$+ for the privilege.Valve actually does that, ironically enough, for the steam community web assets they use Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFront, all on subdomains of course
.
-
I've migrated about half of my services off of cloudflare DNS proxy. Guess which half still worked this afternoon. (Self hosting pangolin with CrowdSec as replacement). I wasn't even using the cloudflare tunnel. Just their proxy for some bot mitigation.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 04:26 zuletzt editiert von sidewayshighways@lemmy.worldbeen really enjoying pangolin so far! i got scared and ended up not installing crowdsec.
am i missing out? how hard would that be to add after the fact?
-
It's a joke. I don't think there's really a website called Frank's Dildo Emporium. But if there is, lmk.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 04:44 zuletzt editiert vonYou could just google it-
oh wait
-
Redacted
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 05:26 zuletzt editiert vonWhen I get to that screen, I just x out most of the time. It's usually not that important.
-
Another reason to self host
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 05:27 zuletzt editiert vonI do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
-
Redacted
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 05:38 zuletzt editiert vonInteresting, I have a lot less problems with the Cloudflare verification, than with Google captchas. The slightest unusual thing seems to put you in captcha hell
-
It blocks anyone not using one of its preferred browsers, among other things. It's become the gatekeeper for a large fraction of the Internet.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 05:42 zuletzt editiert vonWhat browsers does it block?
-
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 05:51 zuletzt editiert von
Well that was fun!
-
I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 05:55 zuletzt editiert vonDoes it need to?
-
The whole internet is down. Unless you self host
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 06:05 zuletzt editiert vonStuff hosted by cloudflare is not the whole internet
-
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 06:12 zuletzt editiert von
I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
-
Still a very important service for many people who are alone.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 06:14 zuletzt editiert vonSelf host your desperation.
-
Redacted
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 06:19 zuletzt editiert vonYou can try https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
-
Does it need to?
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 07:11 zuletzt editiert vonNo but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?
-
I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I'm glad I agreed with me on it.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 07:13 zuletzt editiert vonthis “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
-
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 07:17 zuletzt editiert von
Honestly, I didn't even notice.
-
I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 07:35 zuletzt editiert vonThis is dumb...
If you self host and your power goes out ...
Think about it
-
I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that's it, none of their proxying stuff.
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 07:37 zuletzt editiert vonWhy though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them...
-
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
schrieb am 13. Juni 2025, 08:35 zuletzt editiert vonOh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
-
Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”
Technology140 vor 7 Stundenvor 3 Tagen1
-
-
Your smart bulbs record 78% of conversations even when you think they're off
Technology 4. Juli 2025, 21:361
-
The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it.
Technology 4. Juli 2025, 17:261
-
-
The female TikTokers silenced through murder: Women influencers around the world are killed for simply speaking online
Technology 13. Juni 2025, 10:051
-
-
OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men: OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology
Technology 1. Juni 2025, 09:021