CloudFlare apologizes for Telia screwing you over Content delivery network CloudFlare has apologized in part for the massive outages its customers experienced yesterday, but placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of Tier 1 provider Telia. In a blog post, the company's Network Engineering Manager Jérôme Fleury put up a post-mortem of the incident – and of an incident a few …
I appreciate the fact El Reg now has that 5 sec timer instead of herpes of the internet captchas but still considering Cloudflare is the herpes king glad to see them suffer. Look maybe I would use my real ip more instead of tor if every company and government out there wasn't try to data mine me and serve me up malware but until then don't treat me like the leper.
Not seen one of those for or a CAPTCHA for the Register but I have had my ip range blocked by other sites in the past, because other machines on the range were serving DDoS attacks. It happens. Who knows, maybe some kind of DDoS attack or similar (attacks on carriers are not unknown) was associated with this outage?
We've become so used to good service that we often fail to appreciate how much has to go right for things like the internet to work. The internet is designed to cope with having to reroute traffic but at the cost of latency.
And as the internet becomes more important to us, it also becomes a bigger risk. What this article doesn't say is that carrier failure is a fairly common (not not everyday) occurrence, however brief, in many parts of the world. Prioritising reliable Tier 1 providers is actually one way to mitigate this but even they can have their problems. I've yet to see a CDN that doesn't have the occasional wobble in one part of the world. As with all failures, when it happens good communication is key. Along with working out exactly what went wrong and whether you can prevent that happening again. The question is then: is Cloudflare's and Telia's analysis plausible and do their proposed changes sound reasonable? Or is this more like TalkTalk's crisis management?
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