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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2020 | Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare” by StuntPope | 972 | 385 |
| Sep 3, 2022 | Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called Cloudflare (2020) by phantom_of_cato | 74 | 26 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Jun 2021 to Sep 2022.
Most recent:
- phantom_of_cato · Sep 20, 2022
- phantom_of_cato · Sep 3, 2022
- finite_jest · Dec 1, 2021
- iso1631 · Jun 8, 2021
