Cloudflare down: Internet stops working properly amid major outage [Dec 5]
Cloudflare down: Internet stops working properly amid major outage
Problems comes just weeks after worldwide technical issues that broke sites including ChatGPT and XAndrew Griffin (The Independent)
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along_the_road
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in reply to along_the_road • • •Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues
www.cloudflarestatus.comTehPers
in reply to along_the_road • • •TL;DR: React broke the internet.
Well, that, but also Cloudflare went down because they were trying to fix React's shit.
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in reply to Lena • • •response codes of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Lena
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in reply to Lena • • •TehPers
in reply to Midnitte • • •I think it also doesn't help that only 4XX (client error) and 5XX (server error) are defined as error status codes, and 4XX errors don't even necessarily indicate that anything happened that shouldn't happen (need to reauth, need to wait a bit, post no longer exists, etc).
Trying to think of what 6XX would stand for, and we already have "Service Unavailable" and "Bad Gateway"/"Gateway Timeout", so I guess 6XX would be "incompetence errors". 600 is "Bad Implementation", 601 is "Service Hosted On Azure", 602 is "Inference Failure" (for AI stuff), and I guess 666 is "Cloudflare Outage".
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HTTP Status Cats APILojcs
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in reply to Lime Buzz (fae/she) • • •On the one hand, I 110% agree with you
On the other hand, it's so damn convenient. They cache your shit and they protect you from DDoS attacks, and they do it for free*
*Until you're big enough to warrant extortion from them.
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in reply to tatterdemalion • • •Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' | TechCrunch
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in reply to Megaman_EXE • • •From the blog post OP linked in a comment:
... Show more...It seems that the method they have of specifically propagating new security configurations to their servers is not a gradual or group-based rollout, it pushes certain changes to all servers at once, so uncaught bugs end up hitting everything instead of just some initial test group.
From the blog post OP linked in a comment:
It seems that the method they have of specifically propagating new security configurations to their servers is not a gradual or group-based rollout, it pushes certain changes to all servers at once, so uncaught bugs end up hitting everything instead of just some initial test group.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
The Cloudflare BlogTehPers
in reply to t3rmit3 • • •This is the actual answer with respect to Cloudflare. Their config system was fucked in November. It's still fucked in December. React's massive CVE just forced them to use it again.
More generally, the issue is a matter of companies forcefully accelerating feature development at the cost of stability, likely due to AI. This is how the company I'm at is like anyway.
pinball_wizard
in reply to Megaman_EXE • • •We've had three years of unnecessary tech layoffs.
Nobody knows how the fuck anything in their technology stack works anymore.
Everyone is just spinning the giant wheel over and over and hoping it doesn't land on bankrupt.
Sell your technology stocks, kids.
altphoto
in reply to along_the_road • • •Interesting! That's why my ....penis! Exactly! Thanks Mr autocorrect!
That why the website I was trying to visit wasn't working!
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in reply to along_the_road • • •Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
The Cloudflare Blogmavu
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