ecodevs
September 2, 2023, 4:30pm
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Hello, And hour ago all my sites routed through Cloudflare went down. Any help?
What does down mean? Is there an error code? If so what is it? Sample URL?
The site is timing out on connection and returns a 522 error.
I’d begin troubleshooting by reviewing:
Error
Try the suggestions in this Community Tip to help you fix Error 522 “ERR CONNECTION TIMED OUT” in Google Chrome or “The connection has timed out” in Firefox.
Background
A 522 error happens when a TCP connection to the web server could not be established. This typically happens when Cloudflare requests to the origin (your webserver) get blocked. When this happens, you’ll see “ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT”.
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Quick Fix Ideas
Make sure that you’re not blocking Cloudflare IPs in .hta…
ecodevs
September 2, 2023, 5:13pm
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It was working fine until like 2 hour ago.
ecodevs
September 2, 2023, 5:18pm
8
Maybe? Cloudflare has a lot of graphs and screenshots these have no labels. It may be that your origin firewall or hosting provider saw a spike in requests and blocked Cloudflare IPs.
Once you’ve figured out why your origin is blocking requests you can review all of your logs / data and implement rules if/as needed.
Get started · Cloudflare DDoS Protection docs
Related content:
Archive This tutorial covers some of the steps you can try to take to protect yourself from a DDoS attack. There is a <a href="https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170196-I-am-under-DDoS-attack-what-do-I-do-">Cloudflare Support Article</a> on this as well.
Sign up for Cloudflare - Cloudflare can provide a lot of helpful tools to help you overcome a DDoS…
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