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Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by DoctorOW on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:27AM (#45978764)
> If that’s the case, the old config is already in memory when the new config is being parsed

I think that's explicitly a non-goal. My understanding is that Cloudflare prefers fail safe (blocking legitimate traffic) over fail open (allowing harmful traffic).

Re:Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem by jgilias on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @07:45AM (#45978946)
Well, they should then add some reliability goals into the mix too to balance it out a bit.