I've tried different routes to several Googles to no avail!
johnmoose
10:31 am on Mar 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
No problem here in EU. Tested with FF and Chrome.
HuskyPup
10:48 am on Mar 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
I'm in the UK, it's back, literally everything was down for me, .com/co.uk/co.in/gmail/adsense.
incrediBILL
2:31 pm on Mar 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
When you have situations like that it's often possible your ISPs DNS services are malfunctioning. If you haven't tried them yet, OpenDNS is a good secondary alternative. I started using them after having a couple of major outages on Comcast's DNS this year.
...also possible it was just a temporary routing failure, which happens.
When you consider the worlds most high tech network is, at some junctures, still held together with bailing wire, duct tape and bubble gum, I'm amazed it works as well as it does!
hint: you have to install OpenDNS before your next outage
levo
3:00 pm on Mar 18, 2011 (gmt 0)
AFAIK OpenDNS intercepts your google searches and modifies them. I would use Google's public DNS..
When things like this happen first try ping on the required site. Next run the required through a third party service such as w3 validator. Doing this should give you a quick indication if the site is up or down.
Considering most hosting companies block ping these days it's not a very good indicator.
Even the site monitoring solutions use HTTP head requests over ping.
Traceroute is the only way to go.
AFAIK OpenDNS intercepts your google searches and modifies them. I would use Google's public DNS
OpenDNS, which I've used for a long time now, doesn't modify any searches.
However, I can tell OpenDNS to modify lots of things if I want it to do so.
I wouldn't give Google one more bit of personal data, letting them watch your DNS queries gives them all sorts of private data, way more than tracking your searches.
