Cloudflare is an American company that provides network services for content delivery, protection against DDoS attacks, Internet security services, and distributed domain name server services. Cloudflare services act as an intermediary between the website visitor and the hosting provider.

What happened?

• The first problems were noticed before 10:00.
• Many well-known services were affected, including Discord Messenger, Feedly news aggregator, DoorDash food delivery service, Crunchyroll streaming service, NordVPN, Register and Medium news sources, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox, Social Blade, Zerodha services. Affected cryptocurrency exchanges are FTX, Bitfinex, Coinbase, WhiteBit, DeFi protocol PancakeSwap. He also “layed down” the online company that developed software for its online and retail stores Shopify and the computer online game League of Legends.
• we can say that The failure affected almost the entire internet in one way or another.
• The company said it was aware of the problem almost immediately and was working to resolve it.

According to the source, the biggest issue was with DNS users Cloudflare. Several Verge employees found that they were unable to access any websites during the shutdown. A workaround was to change the DNS configuration – switching to the provider’s standard DNS settings fixed most of the problems.

The malfunction was eliminated in less than two hours: at 11:08 in Kiev, the company posted a message about solving the problem.

It will be remembered that Cloudflare recently repulsed a record-breaking 26 million requests per second DDoS attack. It contained a small but powerful botnet of 5067 devices combined into a single network. Each such computer can generate about 5,200 requests per second. Target is one of the customers of the company using the free tariff plan.