Major internet outages

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Just a quick one:
Apparently something took down most of cloudflare, AWS and a few other services 2 hours ago.

Whatever it is seems to be heavily impacting everything from random country specific TLD based websites to social/multi media wesbites.

x and a bunch of sites (including oddly enough AI companies GPT grok etc) throw error 500 at cloudflare, and a bunch of random websites hosted in small nations dont load at all right now.

Freaky.

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Oh my how the plot thickens.

It appears a significant cause of the cloudflare outage was
our internet Karens, directed several complicit ISPs to DNS
poison certain sites. In one example they redirect to a
website hosted by wide band networks (@121.200.0.52)  that
displays the following:
> Access Disabled
> Access to the website has been disabled because the
Australia Federal Court has determined that it infringes or
> facilitates the infringement of copyright.

The problem of course being the IPs/sites getting redirected
are managed by cloudflare; so not only did they block the
"evil video sharing" websites, they also took out most of
the rest of the internet hosted by cloudflare too in the
process, thus the x/twitter outage too.

In effect our department of internet karens, and the UK
esafety department may have actually contributed to the
cloudflare error 500.   It seems to have been a
collaborative and poorly thought out DoS poisoning attack,
at the bidding of ISP minions serving lawyers and IP
trolls,  as it impacted users of several ISPs over at least
three nations. (UK, US, Aus)

And it seems it was deliberate.      Also this means under
the TPP; any signatory nation cloudflare has an office in,
technically has grounds to press charges against the
Australian Government for this malicious act, under the "any
policy that causes financially impact" provision. Downside
here is the ISPs by being complicit would also potentially
be liable too.

Here in Australia specifically, the poisoning seems to be
constrained to DNS's of Australian ISPs, and essentially cut
most of Australia off from the internet.  Likely under the
Non Disclosure Agreement provisions of the Australian
carrier code that require all Australian ISPS to install
maintain and provide details to government of a backdoor
they are mandated to give them access to; thus our
department of internet karens probably misused this to
insert the rule that caused the entire problem to begin with.

Also -
If you instead use the google or cloudflare DNS, not the ISP
DNS; the problem essentially goes away.

PS:
Forget "internet 2" i think it is high time we got "internet
3" up and running, and made sure it was entirely outside of
the control of idiot politicians, and price gouging registrars.

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Aside from the internet Karen's DNS poisoning (yay
censorship!) which made the problem so much worse in
Australia, since we didn't just get error 500s, entire
pacific nations using cloudflare had their websites blocked
here (But hey who cares about Australia right? Probably wont
even make the news.) for the rest of the world, cloudflare
posted a deep dive over what went wrong out there:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
(tldr: a size limit on the "feature file" was lower than
what size the file actually ended up being after a
permissions change caused multiple outputs to merge into the
same file, this file was then sent out to all the machines
on their network who all promptly sh@t their pants.)