The world comes to a standstill when the internet is off and this happened around 09:56 AM EAT according to its status page. Cloudflare is a content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company whose technology powers numerous other sites and services across the internet, and the outage seemed to impact a range of different sites, including our site among others. Cloudflare reported that it resolved the issue at 11:00 AM ET.
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The issues were most problematic for users of Cloudflare’s own DNS lookup service. Multiple Techjaja staff members found they were unable to access any websites at all during the outage as a result of using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. Thankfully, the fix here is simple: change your DNS configuration. I found that simply switching back to using my ISP’s default DNS settings resolved most of my issues.
We are still monitoring the result of the implemented fix.
— Cloudflare (@Cloudflare) June 21, 2022
Cloudflare has experienced similar issues in the past such as in July and August 2020. It’s not a good look for a company that advertises its services as a way to reduce downtime.
