Hello Robin,
It was fast infinite loop in the Cloudflare verification.
Only after trying "1000" times, that it finally accepted me as human !!
I did no change in my system.
Jean-Francois
Very annoying Cloudflare
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Re: Very annoying Cloudflare
Hi Jean-Francois,
if something plays up like that, remove the '&sid=blahblahblahwithnumbers' parameter from the URL and you should be able to login/access without cloudflare interfering (at least with the current settings). When we were being hit by the denial of service attacks earlier in the year, one of the key features of the attack was including the 'sid' parameter, which forces the forum server to do more work to serve the request, so I focused the cloudflare onto requests that contain that parameter.
If you are logged in, you should rarely see a sid parameter in the URL - it's something largely used for non-logged-in users to get a certain degree of customization / memory of what they have seen/done before.
cheers,
Robin
if something plays up like that, remove the '&sid=blahblahblahwithnumbers' parameter from the URL and you should be able to login/access without cloudflare interfering (at least with the current settings). When we were being hit by the denial of service attacks earlier in the year, one of the key features of the attack was including the 'sid' parameter, which forces the forum server to do more work to serve the request, so I focused the cloudflare onto requests that contain that parameter.
If you are logged in, you should rarely see a sid parameter in the URL - it's something largely used for non-logged-in users to get a certain degree of customization / memory of what they have seen/done before.
cheers,
Robin
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Re: Very annoying Cloudflare
From Cloudflare Outage Site
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.
Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.
Nov 18, 2025 - 14:42 UTC
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Re: Very annoying Cloudflare
Hi,
yes, it looks like cloudflare is back and therefore we are online again. In theory I could have altered the master DNS records to bypass cloudflare, but DNS changes take time to propagate, typically several hours, so unless there was a very extended outage it's not really worth the bother...
cheers,
Robin
yes, it looks like cloudflare is back and therefore we are online again. In theory I could have altered the master DNS records to bypass cloudflare, but DNS changes take time to propagate, typically several hours, so unless there was a very extended outage it's not really worth the bother...
cheers,
Robin
Re: Very annoying Cloudflare
Robin
Whenever I did changes such as mail server migrations, I set the DNS Time To Live (TTL) down to substantially less than the defaults to enforce the change to propogate.
Dave
Whenever I did changes such as mail server migrations, I set the DNS Time To Live (TTL) down to substantially less than the defaults to enforce the change to propogate.
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Re: Very annoying Cloudflare
Hi Dave,
yes, I've done that in the past too. Sadly if you are thinking in terms of a response to an outage like the Cloudflare one then you have no option to plan ahead and adjust the TTL down, you would have to leave it really low all the time
Cloudflare themselves have a bypass mode if I recall correctly, which might have been OK, but the admin portal was down too...
cheers,
Robin
yes, I've done that in the past too. Sadly if you are thinking in terms of a response to an outage like the Cloudflare one then you have no option to plan ahead and adjust the TTL down, you would have to leave it really low all the time
Cloudflare themselves have a bypass mode if I recall correctly, which might have been OK, but the admin portal was down too...
cheers,
Robin