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		<title>Our ongoing commitment to privacy for the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rory Malone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago, we launched 1.1.1.1 to build a faster, more private Internet. Today, we’re sharing the results of our latest independent examination. The result: our privacy protections are working exactly as promised.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Cable cuts, storms, and DNS: a look at Internet disruptions in Q4 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The last quarter of 2025 brought several notable disruptions to Internet connectivity. Cloudflare Radar data reveals the impact of cable cuts, power outages, extreme weather, technical problems, and more.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>What came first: the CNAME or the A record?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastiaan Neuteboom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root cause, examines the source code of affected resolvers, and dives into the inherent ambiguities of the DNS RFCs.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Fresh insights from old data: corroborating reports of Turkmenistan IP unblocking and firewall testing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luke Valenta]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cloudflare used historical data to investigate reports of potential new firewall tests in Turkmenistan. Shifts in TCP resets/timeouts across ASNs corroborate large-scale network control system changes.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Online outages: Q3 2025 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Q3 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government directed shutdowns, power outages, cable cuts, a cyberattack, an earthquake, a fire, and technical problems, as well as several with unexplained causes.]]></description>
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[João Tomé]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fogos.pt, a volunteer-run wildfire tracker in Portugal, grew from a side project into a critical national resource used by citizens, media, and government. During 2025 fire season it was hit by DDoS]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Shutdown season: the Q2 2025 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Q2 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world resulting from government-directed shutdowns, power outages, cable damage, a cyberattack, and technical problems.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>New year, no shutdowns: the Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Q1 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world caused by cable damage, power outages, natural disasters, fire, a cyberattack, and technical problems.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30 OVHcloud outage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryton Herdes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Exam-ining recent Internet shutdowns in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Belson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact]]></description>
		
		
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