Forum Issues?

[Rroff]

Still having intermittent issues on any site using Cloud Flare, looks like they've mostly solved it for now but still not 100%.

 

[deviation]

Were the graphics as good?

I couldn't get more than 24FPS without using DLSS/FG

 

[Conscript]

I went outside while it was down.

I'm sorry, I don't understand this statement.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

CF is ******

Affects many sites, outages last a few minutes every 15 minutes or so

 

[Throrik]

Were the graphics as good?

Good graphics, terrible micro-transactions. The bloke at the shop wanted real money just for a sandwich.

 

[ChrisD.]

Downdetector is behind Cloudflare, the irony.

Things seem back to normal now.

 

[shifty_uk]

Think we're good now.

Most of my client sites have been down for hours affecting many many £, not a fun morning.

 

[squerble]

Downdetector is behind Cloudflare, the irony.

Things seem back to normal now.

Which one? I've had no issues going to downdetector.co.uk for the entirety of the outage.

 

[Nabinium]

Think we're good now.

Most of my client sites have been down for hours affecting many many £, not a fun morning.

Yup, same for the company I work for. I haven't been able to do much work in the past couple hours either...

 

[shifty_uk]

Yup, same for the company I work for. I haven't been able to do much work in the past couple hours either...

Drafting up contingency plans for future - Trouble is, there's never a glimpse of a resolution ETA so you could go to the effort of switching nameservers to registrar or alternative, taking all that time to propagate only for it to come back up.

 

[Van Diemen]

All sites seem to be back up now.

 

[Maundie]

Yeah it was hit and miss for me when trying to access the Forums, seems to be working fine for now (touching desk made out of sawdust shavings)

 

[dcsarge]

Glad it's resolved as it also knocked out YouFibre's remote system for installers as he got here. Hopefully will be able to activate without any hiccups .

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Oops

Drafting up contingency plans for future - Trouble is, there's never a glimpse of a resolution ETA so you could go to the effort of switching nameservers to registrar or alternative, taking all that time to propagate only for it to come back up.

Registrar nameserver changes take up to 48 hours to propagate.
You clearly need to step away from the contingency strategy table

A basic contingency is to have low TTL A-records and 'try' to keep a failover CDN/WAF/Firewall stack in sync with your production stack - Risky and expensive

 

[shifty_uk]

Oops


Registrar nameserver changes take up to 48 hours to propagate.
You clearly need to step away from the contingency strategy table

A basic contingency is to have low TTL A-records and 'try' to keep a failover CDN/WAF/Firewall stack in sync with your production stack - Risky and expensive

Indeed, not something I fancy doing. By drafting, I meant investigating

48 hours is worst case. I was actively monitoring some competitor sites who either switched to Cloudfront or went the registrar route and got things back online fairly quickly. Every second counts.

 

[Merlin5]

I just heard this Cloudfare issue mentioned on the LBC 4pm news. Something Cloudflare will no doubt be embarrassed about and want to rectify to stop it ever happening again.

 

[ChrisD.]

Registrar nameserver changes take up to 48 hours to propagate.

It also relies on the Cloudflare dashboard being available, and it wasn't, nor was API. So well and truly stuck.

 

[Redrum]

The Cloudflare dashboard was available intermittently. Their DNS never went down from what I can see so the solution for my company was just to log in and turn off proxying in the DNS settings, since our origins on AWS have SSL certificates and can handle the traffic. It did take a long time though due to the dashboard being broken so it was taking a few minutes for each site with lots of refreshing the dashboard until we could get it to load.

I appreciate this wouldn't have worked for everyone though, especially if you're reliant on Cloudflare features.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

The Cloudflare dashboard was available intermittently. Their DNS never went down from what I can see so the solution for my company was just to log in and turn off proxying in the DNS settings, since our origins on AWS have SSL certificates and can handle the traffic. It did take a long time though due to the dashboard being broken so it was taking a few minutes for each site with lots of refreshing the dashboard until we could get it to load.

I appreciate this wouldn't have worked for everyone though, especially if you're reliant on Cloudflare features.

No firewall changes on the origin ? Are your origins always open to the public ?

 

[Slam]

I thought I was having ethernet issues again, that outage sent me down a troubleshooting rabbit hole