Re: IETF Website Degradation

Adam Roach <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:26:29 -0500



    Incidentally -- and I don't know if you
      turned this on or if Cloudflare did -- but the interstitial page
      that appears when accessing IETF pages is described by Cloudflare
      like this: "
      
      _javascript_ and cookies are required for the tests and recording
      the fact that the tests were correctly passed."

      
      I know some significant percentage of IETFers run with _javascript_
      turned off, so this may pose a hardship for them.

      
      /a

      
      On 8/3/15 17:03, Glen wrote:

    
                All -

                  
                We are experiencing degradation on the websites served
                by the primary IETF server group, including the IETF
                main website, the IAB and IRTF sites, and the
                Datatracker.

                
              Page load times for all sites are extremely slow.

              
            We have engineers working on this now.

            
          The problem *seems* to be that Cloudflare is sending us
          hundreds of simultaneous connections from hundreds of
          different IP addresses across many netblocks.  We are
          contacting Cloudflare now to see why this is happening, and
          what can be done to mitigate it, and we are continuing to
          investigate options on our end to restore normal service.

          
        Other services and sites are not impacted, and one way or
          another we will have service restored shortly.  Thank you for
          your patience in this matter.

          
        Glen

        
        Glen Barney

        
        IT Director

        
        AMS (IETF Secretariat)