Zenarmor heavily relies on Cloudflare it appears?

[jlficken]

I can only get 5% of my internet speeds currently with Zenarmor enabled.  I had hoped that disabling Cloud Protection would fix that for now, however, it doesn't appear to.  In order to get my speed back I had to enter bypass mode.

Is there another option to avoid 3rd party reliance that I'm missing for a temporary fix that would all me to have at least some protection when Cloudflare goes down?

[chrismccracken]

This seems like a critical data flow path failure that needs to be addressed promptly in a Zenarmor software update. I have no problem if Zenarmot uses the cloud for added functionality, but a local firewall should never DEPEND on a cloud service for basic functionality.

[jlficken]

This seems like a critical data flow path failure that needs to be addressed promptly in a Zenarmor software update. I have no problem if Zenarmot uses the cloud for added functionality, but a local firewall should never DEPEND on a cloud service for basic functionality.

That's my feeling as well.

I can work with outdated signatures in the case of a Cloudflare outage, however, a 90% reduction in bandwidth as well as 500ms+ latency is a no go for me.

I've disabled Zenarmor and gone back to Unbound DNS Blocklists for now.

[jlficken]

A user on Reddit suggested restarting the Packet Engine after disabling Cloud Threat Intelligence and that did the trick to get speed and latency back under control until CTI is working again.

[sy]

Hi all,

We apologize for the inconvenience caused. The issue occurred due to Cloudflare blocking our traffic after the downtime was resolved. The CTI server status should now be "UP" and fully operational again.

Zenarmor blocks DNS requests for domains without a categorization to enhance security. This is why internet traffic experienced slowness during the Cloud Threat Intel server issue.

Please feel free to reach out Zenarmor support team for any additional assistance.