Web security service CloudFlare was offline for about an hour this morning due to a system-wide failure of its edge routers.
The outage, which began around 1:47 a.m. PT, removed the security layer for 785,000 Web sites, including 4chan and Wikileaks, according to TechCrunch. CloudFlare said the outage occurred while it was trying to defend one of its customers from a distributed denial-of-service attack.
The outage affected Juniper routers running the Flowspec protocol, which allows customers to broadcast router rules to a large number of routers efficiently. CloudFlare uses the protocol to update the rules on routers to battle attacks and shift traffic.
CloudFlare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said in a company blog post today that it detected a DNS attack this morning when it identified attack packets between 99,971 and 99,985 bytes long, much larger than the 500-byte average and CloudFlare's 4,470-byte maximum packet size.
While CloudFlare service was restored about an hour later, Prince said company is examining the cause of the failure and has contactedJuniper to learn whether this is a known bug. Prince also said customers would receive service credits.
Prince noted striking similarities between its outage and last year's Internet blackout in Syria.
"In CloudFlare's case the cause was not intentional or malicious, but the net effect was the same: a router change caused a network to go offline," Prince wrote.
Source: Cnet
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