‚It was not as a result of an attack,‘ Cloudflare said. ‚It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some portions of the network to not be available.‘
Access to Discord, Riot Games, and numerous other websites briefly went down on Friday due to an error at web infrastructure provider Cloudflare.
The outage began around 5:15 pm EST when attempts to connect to the affected web properties failed to reach the correct IP addresses. Browsers showed the error involved the domain name system (DNS), which acts as the phone book for the internet.
Cloudflare, which serves 26 million sites and speeds up access to web content, is indicating the problem had something to do with the company’s DNS resolver, which helps ferry website lookups to the correct IP address.
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‚It was not as a result of an attack,“ Cloudflare said.
