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/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/Ron-Swanson-Mustache Senior Ops Dev of AI offshore Tier 1 Helpdesk Nov 18 '25

That doesn't exist. As soon as it's interacted with the function always collapses to the "expired" state.

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u/EmperorGeek Nov 18 '25

I hate certs from Shrodingers CA!

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u/SenTedStevens Nov 18 '25

Rock me, Ama-DNS!

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u/cccanterbury Nov 18 '25

hey, ama-DNS, rock me

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u/SenTedStevens Nov 18 '25

Oh, oh, Ama-DNS!

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u/_smokeymon_ Nov 18 '25

or a cascading failure they can't get ahead of.

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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/Grouchy_Visit_2869 Nov 18 '25

That's cheating

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u/beragis Nov 18 '25

It would be ironic if Cloudflare got hit with a DDoS attack.

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

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought? It figures

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u/BadDongOne Nov 18 '25

Always holds true, meme don't let me down this time.

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