But, even bigger attacks are on their way. Here's what you can do to slow them down and hopefully stop them in their tracks.

A change in X's service provider circumvented Brazil's ban by changing its IP addresses. Newsweek. ... Simply put, Cloudflare is too big to block and too many websites depend on it.

To halt illegal sports streams, Spanish sports streaming giants, LaLiga and Telefónica, have been issuing IP blocking orders since February 2025. Yet, this tactic has led to many overblocking ...

Cloudflare claims to have mitigated biggest DDoS attack on record with requests flying in from 5,500 IP addresses per second News By Jess Kinghorn published 22 January 2025 ...

Though X's statement didn't name its new network provider, reports said that X started routing traffic through Cloudflare. As a result, blocking IP addresses used by X could make other sites that ...

It’s not just Cloudflare customers who are being restricted from certain areas of the web. Another commenter wrote “Vendors who block iCloud Relay are the worst… Blocking IP addresses is o ...

Type "nslookup" (without the quotation marks) and then the IP address that you want to block. For example, if the IP address is 99.999.999.99, you would type the following:nslookup 99.999.999 ...

However, Cloudflare complies with court orders in its own way, rather than through DNS blocking, explaining in its H2 2024 Transparency Report that it 'does not block content via DNS resolvers ...