Cloudflare has confirmed that a bug in one of its core services data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone”>caused a major outage on Tuesday, taking large portions of the internet offline and affecting traffic to services including X, ChatGPT, and, ironically, Downdetector. The company’s CTO, Dane Knecht, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646?s=20″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646?s=20″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>posted a public apology shortly after services were restored, calling the incident “unacceptable” and attributing the disruption to a routine configuration change that triggered a crash in its bot mitigation layer.
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