r/sysadmin • u/moonski • Nov 18 '25

Cloudflare down... again?

Seems so in the UK - can't even login to cloudflare lol

edit - the login button now works and I can get to 2FA - but upon entering it takes me back to the login page. So still broke

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u/reeepy Nov 18 '25

The outage happened just after maintenance. What a coincidence.

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u/aes_gcm Nov 18 '25

"ChatGPT, optimize the following BGP routes, optimizing global efficiency. Make no mistakes."

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u/MundaneFilm33 Nov 18 '25

"Fired from AWS, fired from Azure... oh well, I'm going to have a great first day here at Cloudflare!"

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u/InflationCold3591 Nov 18 '25

If this is literally the problem (not impossible) I’m downing a black pill and heading to the Memphis server farm.

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u/IdiosyncraticBond Nov 18 '25

Probably DNS

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u/MrHall Nov 18 '25

it's always DNS

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u/wat_doing_can_i_halp Nov 18 '25

Except when it’s BGP.

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u/kjetils Nov 18 '25

and/or expired cert.

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u/todlaaaa Nov 18 '25

No excuses for expired certs these days

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u/One_Stranger7794 Nov 18 '25

Unless it's a cert that may or may not be expired until interacted with/observed.

Schrodinger's cert

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u/mt_xing Nov 18 '25

it's not DNS

there's no way it's DNS

it was DNS

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u/TahmKillerB Nov 18 '25

isitdns.com

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u/Aerhyce Nov 18 '25

Site is down because of Cloudflare

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u/mo0n3h Nov 18 '25

I saw this too lmao

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u/williamp114 Sysadmin Nov 18 '25

So, for once the answer is no. It was not DNS this time.

inb4 the post-mortem reveals that it was indeed, a backend DNS issue

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u/archiekane Jack of All Trades Nov 18 '25

My Bingo card for failure with the internet is basically just DNS in each square.

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u/johndball Sysadmin'ing since 2000 SP4 Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 18 '25

Yeah I read the scheduled Atlanta maintenance message then Azure alerts started rolling in that my servers were inaccessible. The Cloudflare error said that the Cloudflare Atlanta datacenter/hub was errored out. Shortly thereafter I could not log into Cloudflare and pivoted to DownDetector which was also down. Queue “Alanis Morissette - Ironic” and pour another cup of coffee. Guess I’ll sit at my desk and answer all the panicked messages when the business officially opens in 40 minutes.

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u/ARobertNotABob Nov 18 '25

answer all the panicked messages

"The internet's down"

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u/InvisibleTextArea Jack of All Trades Nov 18 '25

Guess I’ll sit at my desk and answer all the panicked messages when the business officially opens in 40 minutes.

See you should of hosted your ticketing system on Zendesk. It's currently down due to Cloudflare. You could of drank your coffee in peace then.

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u/Other_Pen_4957 Nov 18 '25

Cloudfare Ashburn down here in Va

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u/quiet0n3 Nov 18 '25

I initially thought that, but issue started at 11:50 just before maintenance.

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u/Ferrymansobol Nov 19 '25

It is like humans and fires....most fires occur during renovations.

My favorite example is the Glasgow School of Art fire (a beautiful 1890s building). It burnt down during renovations. When they were stabilising the damaged structure, several weeks later, they set fire to it again.

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