Sorry about this, I still don't have any answer or explanation from Vultr or CloudFlare at this point. Most likely cause IMO is that CloudFlare (accidentally?) blocked one or many big ranges of IPs belonging to Vultr (and maybe some other providers as people seems to say Vultr was not the only impacted). I noticed during the incident this morning for example that I could ping CloudFlare IPv6 (ICMP) but not connect through TCP (port 443). So this sounds more like a firewall than a routing issue from what I could see.
Quick update here: Vultr is still ignoring us, and Cloudflare said to one of my clients: "some IPv6 traffic from Vultr was being dropped by a DDoS mitigation system as we were receiving malicious traffic from Vultr. The issue has since been resolved, and updown should be reporting availability correctly now."
So this confirms what I suggested above, I suppose they choose not to respond with an HTML page here because it would generate too much traffic, and maybe it was a lower level TCP attack.
This also probably explains why Vultr doesn't want to answer me if they were "responsible" for the DDoS attack that got them blocked.
That's a bit weird, normally when cloudflare blocks things you get an error page not a timeout, hopefully you hear something tomorrow when everyone is back at work. Appreciate you looking into this :)
Sorry about this, I still don't have any answer or explanation from Vultr or CloudFlare at this point. Most likely cause IMO is that CloudFlare (accidentally?) blocked one or many big ranges of IPs belonging to Vultr (and maybe some other providers as people seems to say Vultr was not the only impacted). I noticed during the incident this morning for example that I could ping CloudFlare IPv6 (ICMP) but not connect through TCP (port 443). So this sounds more like a firewall than a routing issue from what I could see.
I'll update once I have anything else in https://status.updown.io/issue/1e196616-1368-43a0-8c04-82cff.... For the moment I'm keeping the mitigation in place just in case.
If you have more details about this from CloudFlare or elsewhere I'll be happy to hear it :)