Cloudflare outage causes chaos across the internet
- Thread starter WYP
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
This is why so much of the net relying on this 1 service is a very bad idea.
Deadtroopers
Member
Thrice is enemy action. Who have we royally pissed off in recent years? I suspect we are being hoist by our own petard.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
There are many providers. Cloudflare is on the larger side true, but I doubt any 1 provider holds more than 20% of the total net. Most are regional.
The entire network is connected. That's why you can use any DNS provider and still get to the same webpage. So realistically regardless of which resolver you use, it doesn't really change anything. A user can just switch resolvers on the whim. It really only effects companies who are using services and features reliant upon a specific provider.
The bigger issue boils down to security and bad actors trying to break it. If these actors can ruin AWS, Google, Azure; then cloudflare nor anyone else stands much of a chance either.
Deadtroopers
Member
We've already seen crackers social engineer an AI to launch simultaneous attacks for them. All these "big players" with some large part of the custody of the Internet's functionality are naked to the same thing. The Web isn't a web and the 'Net isn't a net unless we are shot of the "big players" and everything about the internet is thoroughly decentralised, as was the original idea. Recent events scream someone sending a message to me; an existential threat that cannot be ignored. Given the powers-that-be seem to be extraordinarily ignorant about AI; computers; and the internet, I'm not optimistic this will be tackled as it should be.
