April 12, 2018 2:01PM
Introducing Spectrum: Extending Cloudflare To 65,533 More Ports
Product News
Spectrum
DDoS
IoT
Security
We are introducing Spectrum, which brings Cloudflare’s security and acceleration to the whole spectrum of TCP ports and protocols for our Enterprise customers. It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet....
April 05, 2018 2:00PM
Argo Tunnel: A Private Link to the Public Internet
Argo Smart Routing
Product News
Speed & Reliability
Security
Cloudflare Tunnel
Argo Tunnel lets you deploy services that are hidden on the internet. In other words, Argo Tunnel is like a P.O. box: someone can send you packets without knowing your real address. Only Cloudflare can see the server and communicate with it....
March 06, 2018 7:00PM
NAT To Be Missed At SXSW
Life @ Cloudflare
Events
Community
SXSW
We’re at the EDGE of our seats, about to LANd in Austin, Texas in route for SXSW. (TKIP, hip, hooray!) ARP you going to be there? We R going to have three epoch sessions by Cloudflare speakers....
December 24, 2017 4:57PM
TLS 1.3 is going to save us all, and other reasons why IoT is still insecure
IoT
TLS 1.3
TLS
Security
Crypto
Gatebot
DDoS
As I’m writing this, four DDoS attacks are ongoing and being automatically mitigated by Gatebot. Cloudflare’s job is to get attacked. Our network gets attacked constantly....
December 12, 2017 2:00PM
Why Some Phishing Emails Are Mysteriously Disappearing
Phishing
Abuse
DNS
Reliability
Phishing is the absolute worst.
Unfortunately, sometimes phishing campaigns use Cloudflare for the very convenient, free DNS....
November 23, 2017 2:00AM
Want to try Warp? We just enabled the beta for you
Beta
Product News
Argo Smart Routing
Cloudflare Tunnel
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States. It’s a holiday for getting together with family characterized by turkey dinner and whatever it is that happens in American football....
October 03, 2017 11:00AM
WHOIS going to be at the Grace Hopper Celebration?
Events
Grace Hopper
API
IPv4
Go
Ubuntu us are doing the round trip! It’s time to live - WAN you arrive at GHC, come meet us and say HELO (we love GNU faces, we’ll be very api to meet you). When you’re exhausted like IPv4, git over to the Cloudflare corner to reboot....
September 28, 2017 2:01PM
Introducing Cloudflare Warp: Hide Behind The Edge
Product News
Speed & Reliability
Argo Smart Routing
Cloudflare Tunnel
I work at a company whose job it is to be attacked. As I’m writing this, an automatic mitigation is fighting two ongoing DDoS attacks. Any machine that’s publicly routable on the internet today can be a vector for attack, and that’s a problem....
September 10, 2017 6:04PM
Delivering Dot
Product News
DNS
Anycast
Reliability
Speed & Reliability
Optimization
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator).
F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a shared Anycast. This document reviews how F-Root has performed since that date in March 2017.
The DNS root servers are an important utility provided to all clients on the Internet for free - all F root instances includin...
July 21, 2017 9:01AM
How to use Cloudflare for Service Discovery
DDoS
Reliability
Speed & Reliability
IPv4
DNS
API
Programming
Argo Smart Routing
TLS
Security
Cloudflare runs 3,588 containers, making up 1,264 apps and services that all need to be able to find and discover each other in order to communicate -- a problem solved with service discovery....
May 25, 2017 6:30PM
Less Is More - Why The IPv6 Switch Is Missing
IPv4
IPv6
OpenDNS
DNS
Reliability
At Cloudflare we believe in being good to the Internet and good to our customers. By moving on from the legacy world of IPv4-only to the modern-day world where IPv4 and IPv6 are treated equally, we believe we are doing exactly that....
May 05, 2017 3:55PM
Meet The Brand New DNS Analytics Dashboard
DNS
Analytics
Reliability
Speed & Reliability
Dashboard
Have you noticed something new in your Cloudflare analytics dashboard this morning? You can now see detailed DNS analytics for your domains on Cloudflare....
May 01, 2017 4:58PM
Introducing TLS with Client Authentication
IoT
Reliability
TLS
API
Security
In a traditional TLS handshake, the client authenticates the server, and the server doesn’t know too much about the client. However, starting now, Cloudflare is offering enterprise customers TLS with client authentication....
April 27, 2017 2:00PM
Introducing Cloudflare Orbit: A Private Network for IoT Devices
DDoS
IoT
Product News
Reliability
Security
Attacks
Orbit
In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP’s, mostly hacked CCTV cameras. We continued to see more IoT devices in DDoS attacks....
April 12, 2017 4:06PM
Changing Internet Standards to Build A Secure Internet
DNSSEC
Reliability
DNS
Security
IETF
We’ve been working with registrars and registries in the IETF on making DNSSEC easier for domain owners, and over the next two weeks we’ll be starting out by enabling DNSSEC automatically for .dk domains....
March 08, 2017 2:01PM
An AMP validator you can cURL
AMP
Cache
Firebolt
Cloudflare has been a long time supporter of AMP, an open-source markup language 1.5 billion web pages are using to accelerate their mobile web performance. Cloudflare runs Ampersand....
October 06, 2016 5:01PM
Announcing New Features To Help Hosting Providers Run Their Own Reliable DNS Infrastructure
Product News
DNS
Reliability
Virtual DNS
Over the last six years, we’ve built the tooling, infrastructure and expertise to run a DNS network that handles our scale - we’ve answered a few million DNS queries in the few seconds since you started reading this....
August 25, 2016 5:01PM
You Can Finally Get More Page Rules For 5 For $5
Product News
Page Rules
Optimization
Add-ons
Since CloudFlare launched Page Rules in 2012, our Free, Pro and Business users have been asking for a way to get more Page Rules without committing to the next plan up. Starting today, anyone on CloudFlare can add 5 additional Page Rules for just $5/month....
June 24, 2016 5:31PM
Economical With The Truth: Making DNSSEC Answers Cheap
DNS
DNSSEC
Reliability
NXDOMAIN
RRDNS
We launched DNSSEC late last year and are already signing 56.9 billion DNS record sets per day. At this scale, we care a great deal about compute cost....
June 17, 2016 5:00PM
Join Us And Paul Vixie On Tuesday To Discuss BIND, Root Servers, And DNS Security
DNS
Events
Reliability
Cloudflare Meetups
CloudFlare and Gandi have been hosting a speaker series on DNS, previously bringing in the founder of DNS Paul Mockapetris and Dan Kaminsky, who uncovered one of the most critical vulnerabilities in DNS....