Archive for the ‘Cloudflare’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29

Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:
- fiber outage of the Internet Archive
- DoS of Cloudflare by itself
- AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
- Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
- framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
- many more¹
Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/06
Some links on the unexpected turn of events after [Archive] Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy) / Twitter posted
First his site got more traffic because of the post, then within an hour traffic exploded because of a DDoS overflowing both his Raspberry Pi cluster and his mobile data capacity.
Jeff will likely do blog posts on these and update the underlying GitHub repository at [Wayback/Archive] geerlingguy/turing-pi-2-cluster: Turing Pi 2 Cluster , but until then (since his Tweets were not threaded), this is what happened on 20220209 as it taught me a few bits:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/27
Some links that helped me getting this working:
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Posted in Cloud, Cloudflare, Communications Development, Development, Encryption, GitHub, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS/TLS security, Infrastructure, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt/certbot), Power User, Security, Software Development, Source Code Management, TCP, TLS, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/01
Sometimes it is easier to have current and public CA signed TLS certificates for internal servers than to setup and maintain an internal CA and register it on all affected browsers (including mobile phones).
One of my reasons to investigate this is that Chrome refuses to save credentials on servers that have no verifiable TLS certificate, see my post Some links on Chrome not prompting to save passwords (when Firefox and Safari do) about a week ago.
Below are some links for my link archive that hopefully will allow me to do this with Let’s Encrypt (msot via [Wayback/Archive] letsencrypt for internal servers – Google Search):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/22
If you think download speeds are slow for large downloads (or multi-media playback is slow or quality is low) on a fast link, then consider your DNS.
Many people report that using one of the centralised DNS services (like Google/Cloudflare/…) causes slowness because they direct CDN lookups to a small pool of servers that get overloaded.
Some links:
Via [WayBack] How to check whether DNS is working through a browser? – Super User
Google DNS also allows for interactive querying, for example [WayBack] Google Public DNS
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/02
DNS over HTTPS
For my link archive:
JSON DNS output
Some DNS over HTTSP providers support dns-json, which Cloudflare delivers non-pretty printed.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/03
There are many reasons to disable DNS over HTTPS (DoH), of which enough are discussed in the links below.
Disabling DoH always talks about setting TTR (the abbreviation Mozilla uses for it) to 5 (like [WayBack] Thread by @isotopp: “Firefox is about to break DNS by enabling DNS-over-HTTP by default […]”), but hardly ever explains the meaning of 5, or any other potential values.
After some searching, I found [WayBack] Firefox disable trr | Knowledge Base:
0: Off by default
1: Firefox chooses faster
2: TRR default w/DNS fallback
3: TRR only mode
5: Disabled
I imagine the setting we’re all looking for is: user_pref(“network.trr.mode”, 5); (emphasis mine)
It pointed me to [WayBack] Trusted Recursive Resolver – MozillaWiki:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/10
Based on [Wayback/Archive.is] How to tell if your site is served via CloudFlare | Igor’s Blog, I’ve changed the script a little bit.
I’ve tested it with one of the domains from the Cloudbleed list (a pretty OK indication the site is using cloudflare) and a the example.org site that does not:
# curl -sI https://feedly.com | grep "Server\|__cfduid\|CF-RAY"
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d779ee6e244349cf06e2707771a9185e21492589239; expires=Thu, 19-Apr-18 08:07:19 GMT; path=/; domain=.feedly.com; HttpOnly
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: 351e5e9af8971497-AMS
# curl -sI https://example.org | grep "Server\|__cfduid\|CF-RAY"
Server: ECS (ewr/15BD)
Domain Source: [Wayback/Archive] pirate/sites-using-cloudflare: Archived list of domains using Cloudflare DNS at the time of the CloudBleed announcement
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] https://www.igorkromin.net/index.php/2017/04/18/how-to-tell-if-your-site-is-served-via-cloudflare/ – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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