Sunday, June 05, 2005
Techtalker - google outage
Google outage
Even the biggies slip up sometimes, and this time it was Google that faces a shutdown, albeit temporarily. For 15 minutes on Saturday evening, the world's most popular search engine was not available. Google officially described it as a DNS (Domain Name System) problem which had nothing to do with security or hacking. Blogs and discussion boards literally went overboard, since the search engine virtually caters to an estimated 200 million querries every day.
As is the case nowadays, blogs seemed to be the first to report the occurrence, with Google Blogoscoped witnessing a post which said, ``Google.com is down at the moment, at least from where I'm standing." Google news and Froogle was down as well, though Gmail was working. There were differing reactions to Google facing an outage. Some
described it as a day when Google went down. Another writer termed it the death and rebirth of Google, or the great vanishing trick.
Some pointed out that the pages are being redirected and suspected a hack. A screenshot of the redirected webpages was also posted at another blog. A little later, Google's David Krane released an official statement saying: "Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time earlier today. We've remedied
the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide." They blamed it on a DNS issue.
The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. Though it was not related, on Wednesday the company launched its Web Accelerator service, which is aimed at increasing access speed to Web pages by offering cached or compressed copies of sites from Google's servers.
Even the biggies slip up sometimes, and this time it was Google that faces a shutdown, albeit temporarily. For 15 minutes on Saturday evening, the world's most popular search engine was not available. Google officially described it as a DNS (Domain Name System) problem which had nothing to do with security or hacking. Blogs and discussion boards literally went overboard, since the search engine virtually caters to an estimated 200 million querries every day.
As is the case nowadays, blogs seemed to be the first to report the occurrence, with Google Blogoscoped witnessing a post which said, ``Google.com is down at the moment, at least from where I'm standing." Google news and Froogle was down as well, though Gmail was working. There were differing reactions to Google facing an outage. Some
described it as a day when Google went down. Another writer termed it the death and rebirth of Google, or the great vanishing trick.
Some pointed out that the pages are being redirected and suspected a hack. A screenshot of the redirected webpages was also posted at another blog. A little later, Google's David Krane released an official statement saying: "Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time earlier today. We've remedied
the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide." They blamed it on a DNS issue.
The domain name system (DNS) is the way that Internet domain names are located and translated into Internet Protocol addresses. Though it was not related, on Wednesday the company launched its Web Accelerator service, which is aimed at increasing access speed to Web pages by offering cached or compressed copies of sites from Google's servers.
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