Your computer is working, the website server is working, but if the machine in the middle is broken, you cannot communicate.



Microsoft Copilot also was acting strange today, repeatedly prompting me to check the box. When I finally got past that, I asked Copilot if Microsoft and Cloudflare are affiliated.

Yes — Microsoft and Cloudflare are affiliated through multiple strategic partnerships, but Cloudflare is an independent company and not owned by Microsoft.

Ironically, I used the old telnet protocol to find a post that described this very problem.



Here is the link posted by neolib:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/18/cloudflare-outage-causes-error-messages-across-the-internet

And how I found it:

telnet 141.98.154.239