I tried to add a post onto this here blog a little earlier and got a Cloudflare Origin 1016 DNS Error.
Ah yes, that old chestnut.
The blog is run on servers many, many more then 6000 miles… from here. And those servers are remarkably stable. Older readers may recall that there were issues with the local servers I used to use, and that’s why 6000.co.za ended up heading overseas.
I’m all for supporting local businesses, but they must actually work.
This overseas option does exactly that. Well, except when I tried to add a post a little earlier.
I will admit that a moment of panic set in. There’s that record to preserve, and I have a lot of plans for the rest of the day, many of which do not involve being near a computer or even an internet connection.
As mentioned, my “new” solution is extremely reliable, and so any error could hint at very bad news.
My first instinct, therefore, was to run around the office panicking a bit, but I was actually just too lazy to get up, so instead I refreshed the page and the error disappeared.
Whatever Cloudflare was looking for – and which wasn’t there 10 seconds earlier – had reappeared.
I think that it might have been there all along and Cloudflare wasn’t looking hard enough.
Anyway, all’s well that ends well. Which it has. For the moment.