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Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike (arstechnica.com)
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A Cloudflare spokesperson told Ars that the cloud services provider saw “a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare’s services,” which “caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare’s network to experience errors.”

“We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic,” the spokesperson said. “We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors. After that, we will turn our attention to investigating the cause of the unusual spike in traffic.”

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[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

EDIT: Cloudflare made a blog post explaining it as a malfunction.

My original post:

It's very normal for countries to DDOS each other to test their limits, and if it could be incorporated in an attack.

And yes, of course the US is also testing this against other nations.

It could also just be a malfunction or someone acting independently. Who knows.

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Every DDoS that hits Cloudflare is bigger than the previous one. There's bound to be one that they couldn't instantly mitigate.

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Did Akamai, their competitor, ever blinked? (I don’t remember).

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

Even if they did, the importance of decentralising the internet away from a few big providers is no joke.

[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Yes of course I totally agree.

[-] turmoil@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago

This was a malfunction, not a DDoS attack. https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks mate, I edited my post for clarity.

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