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I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A statement from cloudflare blamed "a spike in unusual traffic", but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html

Technically a DoS, but not in the most common sense

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size

So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than stupid in the new LLM enhanced computer way.