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Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by ...

This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically. 3:56 UTC: We deploy the change to our first location. This is when the incident started, as this swiftly took these 19 locations offline. "Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic. "This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations," the Cloudflare team added. This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations."

The incident began at 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific Time) and it took until 0742 UTC (0042 Pacific) before the company managed to bring all its datacenters back online ...

Large cloud providers have to manage a vast degree of complexity and moving parts, significantly increasing the risk of an outage." It is completely unsustainable for an outage with one provider being able to bring vast swathes of the internet offline. Things still seemed OK... However, by 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific), the change hit the MCP-enabled locations, rattled through the mesh layer and... Moving forward to 0617 UTC (2317 Pacific) and the change was deployed to one of the company's busiest locations, but not an MCP-enabled one. What had happened was a change to the company's prefix advertisement policies, resulting in the withdrawal of a critical subset of prefixes. During this time a variety of sites and services relying on Cloudflare went dark while engineers frantically worked to undo the damage they had wrought short hours previously.

Company acknowledges interruption was due to 'our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.' By Jay Fitzgerald June 21, 2022, ...

In its blog post, Cloudflare wrote: “Although Cloudflare has invested significantly in our MCP design to improve service availability, we clearly fell short of our customer expectations with this very painful incident. “In this time, we’ve converted 19 of our data centers to this architecture, internally called Multi-Colo PoP (MCP).” “Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic,” the company said. This was our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.” “It wasn‘t an issue caused by someone else.” “

The list is extensive and includes technology giants such as Discord, Medium, Coinbase, NordVPN and Feedly.

“Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers. This was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations.” Shortly after that, the company posted a series of Twitter posts confirming its team was actively working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.

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 ...

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. 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. 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".

Discord, Medium, and DoorDash experienced problems. Cloudflare reported the outage lasted about two hours.

A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Update, 4:45 a.m.: Cloudflare now reports that everything has returned to normal and “all systems” are “operational.” Other websites with issues appear to be League of Legends, Crunchyroll, and Mediacom, according to Down Detector.

Not a cyberattack. Swathes of the Internet knocked offline on Tuesday after 'service issues' at infrastructure provider Cloudflare.

“This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” it said. This was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations. Many of us appreciate the ease of buying groceries from one large store rather than visiting a dozen different ones on the high street.” “In other locations, Cloudflare continued to operate normally.” Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers. The ‘service issue’ actually resulted in hundreds of websites being knocked offline, including Discord, Omegle, Shopify, NordVPN, and National Rail Enquiries to name a few.

Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites ...

We have already started working on [making] changes and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again,” it concluded. is an added layer of routing that creates a mesh of connections. “Over the last 18 months, Cloudflare has been working to convert all of our busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture,” said the blog post.