Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by JoeWiltshire on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:04AM (#46158451)

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... reports that https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is down, guessing downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector runs via cloudflare!

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by designerarvid on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:09AM (#46158570)

https://youtu.be/CIpbEa6KTNI?si=tgEaPo8xG7KnpxLt&t=564

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by yellowbanana on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:05AM (#46158474)

This is art

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by klas_segeljakt on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:43AM (#46159081)

It's downdetectors all the way down

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by PLenz on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:42AM (#46160510)

The open question is if there is a sufficient number of down detectors where the system becomes turing complete

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by ineedasername on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:33AM (#46160429)

Hot take: this is a byproduct of monolithic detector ecosystems. We need diversification of detectors. I propose: sidewaysdetector.com

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by zombot on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:24AM (#46159381)

Is that the same as "All downdetectors are down"?

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by salviati on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:33AM (#46159907)

People confused by this reference can read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by wiz21c on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:21AM (#46159821)

no, it's some turtle-ish dialect

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by andrew_mason1 on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:08PM (#46164954)

correction, it is downdetectors all the way downdetectors

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by loopdoend on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:59AM (#46159211)

No idea why the media always relies on/cites this useless site...

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by justmarc on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:05AM (#46159255)

Down detector slop

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by Poudlardo on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:18AM (#46159333)

haha this website actually is useful

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by lopatin on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:41AM (#46159977)

I think it's down though

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by zombot on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:21AM (#46159355)

I always wondered who detects when downdetector.com is down.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by rolandog on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:23AM (#46160942)

    Each downed page diminishes me,
    for I am involved in WANkind.
    Therefore, ping not to know
    for whom the downdetector detects,
    it detects for thee.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by johncolanduoni on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:21AM (#46159356)

We need a set of down detectors that all detect if each other are down, and produce an answer via quorum.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by ipnon on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:33AM (#46159913)

I think CAP theorem says this is impossible.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by johncolanduoni on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:50AM (#46160035)

Only if the internet partitions in such a way that a quorum is impossible. Cloudflare is not quite that essential.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by rozenmd on Friday December 05, 2025 @05:23AM (#46159376)

guess that explains the random spike in people searching downdetector in OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=RlByu...

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by LAC-Tech on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:01AM (#46159660)

I don't understand, why don't they just make the whole internet out of down detectors?

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by skywhopper on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:06AM (#46160173)

Every network card is a down detector.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by Oarch on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:47AM (#46160011)

Always has been.

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by AmbroseBierce on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:02AM (#46160139)

Snark detectors are all the way up tho

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Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down by seydor on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:37AM (#46160472)

Right now the order is reversed.

Look, i think we need a resilient system that routes packets via multiple possible pathways, preferably all of them, so that ideally nothing is ever fully down. We can name that system the undownnet

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