Keep in mind that your registant details of your .com domain might also be disclosed.
Your domain is at Tucows:
>Tucows Privacy Policy prohibits the release of registrant information without express permission from the registrant except under limited circumstances such as when necessary to comply with ICANN’s Whois publication requirements or when required to comply with law or legal process properly served on Tucows or one of its affiliates.
>Cloudflare requires valid legal process such as a subpoena or a foreign government equivalent of a subpoena before providing this type of information to either foreign or domestic government authorities or civil litigants.
>It is our policy to notify our customers of a subpoena or other legal process requesting their customer or billing information before disclosure of information, whether that legal process comes from the government or private parties involved in civil litigation, unless legally prohibited.
No, Cloudflare is not acting inappropriately at all.
This is standard industry practice, not just in the U.S., but also in Europe and the UK.
Hosting providers, telcos, social media platforms, and other similar entities generally comply with court orders or subpoenas directed at their customers.
It’s uncommon for these companies to challenge such orders unless there’s a very compelling legal reason to do so - i.e. some crazy demand.
CenturyLink/Level3 on Twitter:
"We are able to confirm that all services impacted by today’s IP outage have been restored. We understand how important these services are to our customers, and we sincerely apologize for the impact this outage caused."
CNN is absolutely right. Every day I read news that something goes down at CloudFlare. CloudFlare do much more harm than they "fix" with their services.
Cloudflare status page:
Update - Major transit providers are taking action to work around the network that is experiencing issues and affecting global traffic.
We are applying corrective action in our data centers as the situation changes in order to improve reachability
Aug 30, 14:26 UTC
“AS396531 "Allegheny Technologies Incorporated" is leaking a better-reachable route for AS13335 "Cloudflare, Inc." towards AS701 "Verizon Business/UUnet" explaining the current LSE going on.”
Any company which operates large factories probably has its own ASN and runs its own networks. Every thing's gotta be internet-enabled these days, and at a certain scale, it becomes cost-effective.
It seems silly to me that an end user company not providing any network services which only has a 256 IP block has the ability to break a significant portion of the internet with a configuration mistake. There are several ways to setup dual ISPs and routing that don't involve such risk.
Most places that are just doing it for that reason won't be advertising anything other than their own /24 or whatever though. You have to fuck up pretty spectacularly (and have your upstream providers do the same) to be able to accomplish what has happened here.
Pittsburgh is a town that (used to be) run by steel. Even a few decades after that dominance, this particular company is still a $4B one on the S&P 400. I'm pretty sure this is the company that my grandfather worked at for decades; his brother did from high school to retirement (except during World War II). They apparently significantly polluted the air in the high school district next to mine ten years ago.
It doesn't surprise me at all that they are still a part of infrastructure, somehow.
Your domain is at Tucows:
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