Connection errors in Asia Pacific region on July 9, 2023
July 11, 2023
On July 9, 2023, users in the Asia Pacific region experienced connection errors due to origin DNS resolution failures to .com and .net TLD nameservers...
How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile
June 23, 2023
More than 162 million fans tuned in to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the first year that non-participating countries could also vote. Cloudflare helped scale and protect the voting application based.io, built by once.net using our rapid DNS infrastructure, CDN, Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile...
How Rust and Wasm power Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1
February 28, 2023
Introducing a new DNS platform that powers 1.1.1.1 and various other products....
One of our most requested features is here: DNS record comments and tags
December 21, 2022
Today, we’re releasing DNS record comments and tags, making it easier to keep track of and manage DNS records of your domain...
Cloudflare is joining the AS112 project to help the Internet deal with misdirected DNS queries
December 15, 2022
Cloudflare is participating in the AS112 project, becoming an operator of the loosely coordinated, distributed sink of the reverse lookup (PTR) queries for RFC 1918 addresses, dynamic DNS updates and other ambiguous addresses....
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How we improved DNS record build speed by more than 4,000x
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March 08, 2022
Announcing experimental DDR in 1.1.1.1
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Announcing Foundation DNS — Cloudflare’s new premium DNS offering
Today we’re launching Foundation DNS — our new premium DNS offering! Leverage Cloudflare DNS and ensure your domain is always globally available within milliseconds....
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November 13, 2021
Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
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October 08, 2021
What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data....
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October 04, 2021
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet
Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was ...
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September 27, 2021
Tackling Email Spoofing and Phishing
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March 20, 2021
Moving k8s communication to gRPC
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March 08, 2021
The benefits of serving stale DNS entries when using Consul
We use Consul for service discovery, and we’ve deployed a cluster that spans several of our data centers. We were aware from the start that the DNS query latencies were not great from certain parts of the world that were furthest away from these data centers....
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Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1
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