November 13, 2020
Researchers from UC Riverside and Tsinghua University found a new way to revive a decade-old DNS cache poisoning attack. Read our deep dive into how the SAD DNS attack on DNS resolvers works, how we protect against this attack in 1.1.1.1, and what the future holds for DNS cache poisoning attacks....
October 30, 2020
We recently released a new version of Cloudflare Resolver, which adds a piece of information called “Extended DNS Errors” (EDE) along with the response code under certain circumstances. This will be helpful in tracing DNS resolution errors and figure out what went wrong behind the scenes....
October 02, 2020
October 1 is DNS Flag Day, an initiative by the DNS community to make DNS more secure, reliable and robust. This year the focus is on problems around IP fragmentation of DNS packets....
September 15, 2020
The goal of Cloudflare operated Secondary DNS is to allow our customers with custom DNS solutions, be it on-premise or some other DNS provider, to be able to take advantage of Cloudflare's DNS performance and more recently, through Secondary Override, our proxying and security capabilities too....
August 20, 2020
Secondary DNS Override is a great option for any users that want to take advantage of the Cloudflare network, without transferring all of their zones to Cloudflare DNS as a primary provider....
May 25, 2020
Starting today, enterprise customers who are entitled to secondary DNS will be able to configure their zone in the Cloudflare Dashboard....
May 25, 2020
DNS is the very first step in accessing any website, API, or pretty much anything on the Internet, which makes it mission-critical to keeping your site up and running. This week, we are launching two significant changes that allow our customers to better maintain and update their...
April 21, 2020
Like many, I work remotely and want to show how to deploy Cloudflare Gateway from home. Its DNS filtering protects networks from malware, phishing, ransomware, and other security threats effectively....
April 02, 2020
Today we made a mistake. The mistake caused a number of LGBTQIA+ sites to inadvertently be blocked by the new 1.1.1.1 for Families service. I wanted to walk through what happened, why, and what we've done to fix it....
April 01, 2020
While WARP started as an option within the 1.1.1.1 app, it's really a technology that can benefit any device connected to the Internet. In fact, one of the most common requests we've gotten over the last year is support for WARP for macOS and Windows. Today we're announcing exact...
April 01, 2020
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content. ...
March 31, 2020
We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be ...
March 12, 2020
Announcing Cloudflare for Teams, a new way to protect organizations and their employees, without sacrificing performance. Cloudflare for Teams centers around Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway....
October 29, 2019
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the address book of the Internet. When you visit cloudflare.com or any other site, your browser will ask a DNS resolver for the IP address where the website can be found. Unfortunately, these DNS queries and answers are typically unprotected....
September 25, 2019
Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP+ to the general public. If you haven’t heard about it yet, WARP is a mobile app designed for everyone which uses our global network to secure all of your phone’s Internet traffic....
June 18, 2019
Trust on the Internet is underpinned by the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI grants servers the ability to securely serve websites by issuing digital certificates, providing the foundation for encrypted and authentic communication. ...
June 16, 2019
The Internet is an extraordinarily complex and evolving ecosystem. Its constituent protocols range from the ancient and archaic (hello FTP) to the modern and sleek (meet WireGuard), with a fair bit of everything in between. ...
April 01, 2019
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with WARP performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet....
March 15, 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it...
