Hundreds of websites knocked offline due to Cloudflare outage
 

Hundreds of websites knocked offline due to Cloudflare outage

https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-...utage-12637772

Hundreds of websites were knocked offline after an outage at web infrastructure service Cloudflare.

The outage hit websites like messaging platform Discord and e-commerce service Shopify.

The National Rail Enquiries website was also down and could have been affected, but it was already experiencing a surge in traffic because of today's rail strikes which could have caused connection issues.

Visitors to that site and others saw a message saying: "500 Internal Server Error", according to web monitoring service Down Detector and internet users.

Cloudflare, a US company, says the issue is now resolved.

In a series of Twitter posts it confirmed it was aware of the "current service issues" and said its team was "working to resolve (it) as quickly as possible".

The US company is a content delivery service and its technology helps to power many of the major websites used by internet users every day.

A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/21/2...fitbit-peleton

Cloudflare experienced an outage on Tuesday morning, according to its status page. Cloudflare’s technology powers numerous other sites and services across the internet, and the outage seemed to impact a range of different sites, including Discord, Shopify, Grindr, Fitbit, and Peleton, according to Downdetector. Reports of issues started at around 2:30AM ET. Cloudflare reported that it resolved the issue at 4:06AM ET.

The issues were most problematic for users of Cloudflare’s own DNS lookup service. Multiple Verge staff members found they were unable to access any websites at all during the outage as a result of using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. Thankfully, the fix here is simple: change your DNS configuration. I found that simply switching back to using my ISP’s default DNS settings resolved most of my issues.

No mention of xhamster, Chaturbate, etc being knocked out? You know, the sites that are actually being used?

Oh yeah, I still can not access to some sites