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Are you using Cloudflare DNS? I couldn't access it either during the outage and I just came to the realisation it might be because I switched to 1.1.1.1 a while ago.

Cloudflare's status page is one of the very few services of Cloudflare that are hosted elsewhere precisely for the reason it needs to be available if something isn't working.

> Here in Australia the status page was inaccessible.

Me and a bunch of my colleagues were all able to access it (different ISPs) on the east coast.

I was also able to access it, and my primary DNS was 1.1.1.1, though I use 8.8.8.8 as secondary so that might've saved me if primary wasn't working.

It seemed like ISPs with east coast Vocus backhaul (going to SYD rather than MEL/PER POPs - TIL there's also CBR/BNE/ADL) had it worst trying to get to the status page but as the timeline shows, cloudflare was probably already recovering as we were triaging.

Also in Australia and had no issues with the status page from the very beginning of the outage.