Cloudflare Back to Normal in Pakistan, Other Countries After Global Outage

Cloudflare is now back to normal after a global outage disrupted access to major websites, but users in Pakistan faced big service breakdowns as key local news platforms went offline.

The company said that the issue was now resolved and that teams were monitoring for residual errors. It also confirmed that some customers were still unable to log into the Cloudflare dashboard and that further fixes were underway.

In Pakistan, Geo, Samaa, Dawn, ARY, ProPakistani, and other top websites became inaccessible for many users.

Cloudflare’s Chief Technology Officer Dane Knecht tweeted that the system impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on it. “The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I apologize for the impact that we caused,” he wrote.

He further explained, “Transparency about what happened matters, and we plan to share a breakdown with more details in a few hours. In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack”.

“That issue, impact it caused, and time to resolution is unacceptable. Work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again, but I know it caused real pain today. The trust our customers place in us is what we value the most and we are going to do what it takes to earn that back,” he added.

Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA and Turnstile verification systems also failed, causing additional website errors. Meanwhile, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said it was monitoring the disruption and was in contact with global platforms and local operators until full restoration.

The outage also affected Cloudflare’s Dashboard and API.

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