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Re:Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 by txcwpalpha on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:05AM (#23879119)
That can't be possible, CF's website explicitly says that their DNS is "always available" with "unparalleled redundancy and 100% uptime"! ;)

In all seriousness, I wonder if they are going to have to change the marketing on the site now...

https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/

Re:Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 by hunter2_ on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:31AM (#23879254)
Somewhere, someone is saying the marketing is fine since 100 has just 1 significant figure and therefore two nines -- no, one and a half nines -- can safely be written as 100.
Re:Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 by esperent on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:30AM (#23879506)
If they are truthful it will now probably change to 99.997% uptime or similar. I expect that's still good compared to many DNS providers.
Re:Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 by belorn on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:39AM (#23881326)
Some dns provider only have one name server which is naturally bad.

However it is a bit bad of CF that a single configuration error can bring all the slave servers down. It mean that they have no redundancy in term of BGP misstakes. Customers of CF that want to avoid this would benefit to add an additional slave server outside the hand of CF.

Zonemaster (dns sanity checking tool) actually complain about CF hosted domain names because of the lack of AS redundancy. The outage yesterday demonstrate nicely why that is an concern and why one should care. https://zonemaster.iis.se/?resultid=7d1fab165987e195

Re:Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020 by jontro on Saturday July 18, 2020 @10:30AM (#23881600)
Same goes for route53 too unfortunately