While walking the dog today I listened to Bankless, which is my new favourite podcast for following the Ethereum ecosystem and economy. My curiosity was piqued when I saw the item about Cloudflare’s rolling out support for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and IPFS, especially the way it was worded: “Cloudflare and IPFS – Your ethereum […]
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[AxisOfEasy] Turns Out Half The Internet Has A Single-Point-of-Failure Called “Cloudflare”
Weekly Axis Of Easy #155 Last Week’s Quote was “When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” , was Douglas Adams, author of Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. Nobody got it. However, the week before, Aoe #153’s quote “The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best”, I said nobody got […]
Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone, so are you. At least […]
#cloudbleed and how it affects easyDNS members
The big news this morning is #cloudbleed, a bug in Cloudflare’s web service that was discovered by a Google researcher to be leaking sensitive data, including authentication credentials in plaintext. Due to the size of the Cloudflare user base, this affects a huge swath of the internet, including many easyDNS customers. There are three main […]
