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TonyCoins

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 16:01 #

Amazing how just one CDN can take out wide swaths of the internet this morning.

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 17:19 #

TonyCoins
Amazing how just one CDN can take out wide swaths of the internet this morning.

Yeah, Numista, a few websites my university were using amongst others.

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TonyCoins

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 17:29 #

Today was a really bad day for Cloudflare to go down. Cloudflare is an American technology company, and for those who don't know -- today just happens to be the same day that EU leaders (German Chancellor Friedrich Merz & French President Emmanuel Macron) are having the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty. The whole point of this meeting is to discuss the sentiment that Europe relies too heavily on American technology companies like Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, etc.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251118-merz-macron-to-push-for-european-digital-sovereignty

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 17:31 #

hmm…coincidence?

TonyCoins

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 17:34 #

It makes one wonder. :-) I'm eagerly awaiting to find out exactly what went wrong. It's not the first time a CDN brought down a large portion of website access.

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 17:38 #

A big problem.

The whole internet is drowning under a sludge of spam bot and AI training bot attacks.

AI bots are scraping sites for content, draining server resources as they steal data to regurgitate it mixed with mistakes without referencing the original websites, proof of the gigo principle.

TonyCoins

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Posted: 18 Kas 2025, 17:58 #

Since Cloudflare is a CDN (Content Delivery Network), they're already pretty hardened against network attacks. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to just be a simple text file that was accidentally misconfigured. Even though everything is supposed to go through a change management approval process these days, things slip through. The problem is that "consolidation" has occurred across the last 20 years or so in IT to the point that we're putting all of our eggs into the same basket with these CDN's. It's an obvious single point of failure. If they go down, it affects everyone who is using their services.

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Posted: 19 Kas 2025, 01:44 #

TonyCoins

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Posted: 19 Kas 2025, 02:03 #

Yep, that was from this morning. It was unbelievable just how many websites were crippled.

Well, we finally have an answer from Cloudflare as to exactly what happened. As I suspected, it was a configuration mistake on their end. If anyone wants to read all of the IT related details, here it is:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage

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