Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning

• Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Based on what facts?

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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