Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted
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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.
It also flags my DNS filter and nearly every site I go to has to "check if I'm human"
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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?
The way CDNs and virtual hosts work in general is to read the
hostfield 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
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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.
been 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?
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It's a joke. I don't think there's really a website called Frank's Dildo Emporium. But if there is, lmk.
You could just google it-
oh wait
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Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
When I get to that screen, I just x out most of the time. It's usually not that important.
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Another reason to self host
I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
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Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
Interesting, 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
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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.
What browsers does it block?
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Well that was fun!
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I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.
Does it need to?
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The whole internet is down. Unless you self host
Stuff hosted by cloudflare is not the whole internet
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I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
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Still a very important service for many people who are alone.
Self host your desperation.
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Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID "VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST" PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED "DDOS PROTECTION" JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
You can try https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
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Does it need to?
No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?
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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.
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
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Honestly, I didn't even notice.
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I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you
This is dumb...
If you self host and your power goes out ...
Think about it
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I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that's it, none of their proxying stuff.
Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them...
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this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
Oh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
