Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by mrcnkoba on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:18AM (#45965404)

For anyone reading this who desperately needs their website up, you can try this: If you manage to get to your Cloudflare DNS settings and disable the "Proxy status (Proxied)" feature (the orange cloud), it should start working again.

Be aware that this change has a few immediate implications:

- SSL/TLS: You will likely lose your Cloudflare-provided SSL certificate. Your site will only work if your origin server has its own valid certificate.

- Security & Performance: You will lose the performance benefits (caching, minification, global edge network) and security protections (DDoS mitigation, WAF) that Cloudflare provides.

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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by creatonez on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:48AM (#45965882)

This will also reveal your backend internal IP addresses. Anyone can find permanent logs of public IP addresses used by even obscure domain names, so potential adversaries don't necessarily have to be paying attention at the exact right time to find it.

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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by progmetaldev on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:46AM (#45965855)

Unfortunately, this will also expose your IP address, which may leave you vulnerable even when the WAF and DDoS protections come back up (unless you take the time to only listen for Cloudflare IP address ranges, which could still take a beefy server if you're having to filter large amounts of traffic).

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Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by kobalsky on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:21AM (#45965456)

also the API was working fine while the dash was down.

if you don't have the keys make sure to grab them for the next one.

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