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Isn't HN on Cloudflare? How are we reading about a CF outage on a site that runs behind CF?

nodesocket 7y ago
Seems to be intermittent, and perhaps dependent on which POP you are hitting. I have been getting PagerDuty alerts that are flapping between triggered and resolved.
srushtika 7y ago
Doesn't seem so http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.y...
- sudhirj 7y ago
  I've seen the "checking your browser" on HN message quite a few times, especially when I use a VPN, and I'm pretty certain it's the CF one. Maybe it's turned on selectively for high traffic / bot situations?
- inumedia 7y ago
  FWIW, this site doesn't seem accurate. I used it against my site that is definitely using cloudflare and it incorrectly reported it as not :p
- has-ams 7y ago
  http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=cloudflare.com http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=cloudflare.com
  - jakejarvis 7y ago
    I just put in my own Cloudflare-enabled website and it came back negative as well.
alternize 7y ago
for our sites behind cloudflare, it seems to be a routing issue (among possible other things) - some visitors can still access the sites, others can't. traffic went down roughly 60%.
lenlorijn 7y ago
We have several websites running behind Cloudflare. Only one out of our 8 or so seem affected
tambre 7y ago
HN hasn't been on Cloudflare for almost a year now. Straight to their origin server it seems.
robbiet480 7y ago
The most surefire way to know if a site is behind Cloudflare (orange cloud is on) is by hitting /cdn-cgi/trace (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/cdn-cgi/trace https://news.ycombinator.com/cdn-cgi/trace) which is the debug output from Cloudflare’s HTTP server. There’s no way to my knowledge that route can be disabled or overriden. Anyway, no, HN is not on Cloudflare, at least at the moment.
- mh- 7y ago
  https://www.cloudflare.com/cgi-bin/trace/ https://www.cloudflare.com/cgi-bin/trace/ is a 404
  - jgrahamc 7y ago
    That's because it's cdn-cgi and not cgi-bin.

Seems to be intermittent, and perhaps dependent on which POP you are hitting. I have been getting PagerDuty alerts that are flapping between triggered and resolved.

srushtika 7y ago

Doesn't seem so http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.y...

sudhirj 7y ago
I've seen the "checking your browser" on HN message quite a few times, especially when I use a VPN, and I'm pretty certain it's the CF one. Maybe it's turned on selectively for high traffic / bot situations?
inumedia 7y ago
FWIW, this site doesn't seem accurate. I used it against my site that is definitely using cloudflare and it incorrectly reported it as not :p
has-ams 7y ago
http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=cloudflare.com http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=cloudflare.com
- jakejarvis 7y ago
  I just put in my own Cloudflare-enabled website and it came back negative as well.

alternize 7y ago

for our sites behind cloudflare, it seems to be a routing issue (among possible other things) - some visitors can still access the sites, others can't. traffic went down roughly 60%.

lenlorijn 7y ago

We have several websites running behind Cloudflare. Only one out of our 8 or so seem affected

tambre 7y ago

HN hasn't been on Cloudflare for almost a year now. Straight to their origin server it seems.

robbiet480 7y ago

The most surefire way to know if a site is behind Cloudflare (orange cloud is on) is by hitting /cdn-cgi/trace (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/cdn-cgi/trace https://news.ycombinator.com/cdn-cgi/trace) which is the debug output from Cloudflare’s HTTP server. There’s no way to my knowledge that route can be disabled or overriden. Anyway, no, HN is not on Cloudflare, at least at the moment.

mh- 7y ago
https://www.cloudflare.com/cgi-bin/trace/ https://www.cloudflare.com/cgi-bin/trace/ is a 404
- jgrahamc 7y ago
  That's because it's cdn-cgi and not cgi-bin.