LRC had an outage this past Sunday about 5:15am EST to 5:45am EST. Our CDN provider, CloudFlare, took down their service while fighting an Internet Denial of Service attack. The link explains the outage in semi-technical terms, and offers a sincere apology. “We have already reached out to Juniper to see if this is a known bug or something unique to our setup and the kind of traffic we were seeing at the time. We will be doing more extensive testing of Flowspec provisioned filters and evaluating whether there are ways we can isolate the application of the rules to … Continue reading The Free Market Response to Screw Ups