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Post Mortem: The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
Blog post from Cloudflare
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Date Published
Author
Matthew Prince
Word Count
1,059
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Language
English
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Summary
On February 24, 2012, at around 7:30 GMT, a DNS update by Cloudflare led to an outage affecting some websites for approximately 30 minutes. The new DNS infrastructure was designed to make updates faster but accidentally deleted the primary DNS database during the process. It took about five minutes for Cloudflare to recognize the issue, retrieve the backup, and push it to production. Some users experienced longer downtime due to cached results from their ISP's recursive DNS or issues with two data centers not taking all corrected DNS file updates correctly. The company apologized for the incident and has added safeguards to prevent similar occurrences in the future.
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