Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning

• Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A DDoS that brings down the biggest(?) DDoS protection provider?

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    def possible, cloudflare DDoS their own dashboard a few months ago with some react code

    blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-se…

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• carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based on what facts?

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A statement from cloudflare blamed “a spike in unusual traffic”, but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

    cnbc.com/…/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x…

    Technically a DoS, but not in the most common sense

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

      So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than the new LLM enhanced computer way.

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