Google goes offline
p2pnet.net News:- Google went offline for a quarter of an hour on Saturday, vanishing from around 6:45 to 7:00 pm EST.
Google Botches DNS Update, was how webpronews.com summed it up, going on, “A glitch in the DNS records for the well-known search engine caused browser lookups to fail for a period of time.
“Possible DNS hack knocks out Google,” said vnunet.com, contradicting its own headline with, ” ‘It was not a hacking or a security issue,’ Google spokesman David Krane told Associated Press.”
So what was the problem?
“Google goes awol” [absent without leave],” said silicon.com, quoting a company spokesman as saying, “The problem was related to the DNS (Domain Name System), which translates domain names for computers.”
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[UPDATE: Despite Google's claim that it had fixed the problem, Google Adsense ads (on p2pnet at least) had vanished. 11:08 am PST]
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May 9th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
No one is writing about the problems caused by the so-called 15 minute offline period. I was doing major searching during Saturday afternoon using Google through Firefox and I kept getting dropped for several hours. After that time my Firefox/Google searches would freeze and I got error messages “NotifyAlert.exe Common Language Runtime Debugging Services”. It took me all day Sunday to figure out how to get rid of this. I attribute this to the Google problem. BTW I love Google and am beginning to “like” Firefox so this is not a bashing post.
May 9th, 2005 at 10:21 pm
thats probably because your isp or computer had cached the wrong ip address when googles dns server messed up.