Reminds me of the Crowdstrike incident last year.
Seems like it.
Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.
And the Cloudflare incident also this year.
Reminds me of the Cloudflare incident this year.
And the Cloudflare incident also this year.
Were those as big as this one? Somehow I missed them.
Are they vibe-coding or something?
Either that or DNS :)
Probably
Oh man, these global outages are really getting out of hand. A few days after the recent AWS and Azure outages, I suddenly noticed that I couldn’t reach certain webpages anymore. And I genuinely didn’t even bother trying to debug, because I just assumed that it’s another global outage.
In the evening, I did look into it and noticed that my router was at fault (presumably DNS got bugged by a recent update). That was just wild to me, that I genuinely deemed it more likely that several major webpages went offline together than that my home setup is fucky.
To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]
Well yeah. Yourrouter is managed by a person. We aren’t as good at fucking up as mega corps.
I mean, sure, I do understand what’s happening on a logical level. I’m just so baffled, because this whole internet thingamabob was architected by the military.
It was intentionally built, so that parts of it could fail without disrupting the rest. When a corporation fucks up, it was supposed to take down the servers of that corporation, not also a good chunk of the rest.But unfortunately, this internet thingamabob is merely the closest approximation we have for the “perfect market” that economics theory calls for, so it still doesn’t actually self-regulate like that whole theory would love to believe.
In fact, it is so much worse, because now monopolization happens across the whole planet. Particularly also because we don’t have a functioning “world government” that could enforce competition at that level via laws.So, the network leads to companies monopolizing on top of it and then monopolies necessitate that the respective companies do as poor of a job as possible, because this reduces costs and increases profits. As a result, major parts of this military-grade internet now falter every few weeks.
Yep. The resilient system got corrupted by capitalism, which is an inherently monopolizing centralizing destabilizing enshittifying exploitation algorithm.
There’s some malicious satisfaction watching centralized internet burning in dumpster fire while your self hosted stuff is still up
Except many of us use cloudflare tunnels to reach our selfhosted kit from the internet because we’re behind CGNATs…
Never replace your code monkeys with clankers, boys.
The age old question: was it DNS or LLM?
In short: yes, because Cloudflare is the man in the middle between you and half the internet, most pages use it’s service.
i’m usually on frontends, alternatives and self-hosted services. i’m barely seeing any of those outages.
feeling cool rn ngl 😎
It’s so funny :P just months ago one of my most used forums adopted cloudflare and many asked “Are you sure?”. Well…
Weird. Didn’t notice because Cloudflare blocks my real user traffic because I have the audacity to use a VPN and Firefox with privacy extensions that block like maybe two of their arsenal of fingerprinting tools.
Anyone have a decent guide on migrating from CF tunnels over to a proper reverse proxy? I hate networking 😓
All my services are fine. I self host. Yes I’m quite pedantic about it. :D
most mortem is here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
it was not a ddos.
I have experienced Cloudstrike firsthand. I was stuck in an airport.
Annoying pretty much
