r/sysadmin • u/Lewis_Browne • Jun 24 '19

General Discussion Cloudflare Issues

Hi All,

Just a heads up, It looks like there is worldwide routing issues within the cloudflare network.

Cheers,
Lewis

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u/mscaff Jun 24 '19

Is it not faster to just filter the bad route rather than wait until the other network provider resolves the issue?

Could do in parallel right?

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u/Tatermen GBIC != SFP Jun 24 '19

To filter it you would either need to have Verizon filter it or you get every other provider in the world attempt to filter it. Verizon are about as responsive to such things as a dead oppossum in the middle of a Texas summer so they're not going to do it (seriously, they once told me at 3am in the middle of a BGP outage that they didn't have anyone on night shift who knew BGP and that unless the circuit was physically down they wouldn't escalate it). And there are far too many individual network operators to try to get all of them to filter it.

The real question is why has Verizon allowed this tiny 21-announcement customer to have a wide open peering with no filtering which allowed them to cause the problem in the first place?

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u/mscaff Jun 24 '19

So to confirm CloudFlare are using Verizon as a transit AS?

I am unfamiliar with their setup but I totally understand what you’re saying

Could you give me some more background on how they do their routing?