Cloudflare experienced a minor incident on April 17, 2026 affecting Recursive DNS, lasting 4h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Recursive DNS
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 17, 2026, 03:13 PM UTC
Cloudflare is aware of and investigating problems with Cloudflare sites with .co ccTLDs intermittently returning DNS errors. We are working to mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.
- identified Apr 17, 2026, 04:28 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Apr 17, 2026, 06:20 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Apr 17, 2026, 08:02 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.