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Re: All of Google Offline?

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Post by guessmyname »

Yes → https://downdetector.com/status/google/

This website shows that people started reporting issues with Google around 1:28 AM (Pacific Time), and it currently shows a spike of 7,419 reports.

EDIT: Spike went down at around 2:04 AM (Pacific Time). Thanks, Google Site Reliability Engineers, now go to sleep!

Just a reminder: DownDetector doesn’t actually check if a website is down. It collects data on how many people have reported issues or asked about a site’s status. So, while it doesn’t always reflect the real-time status of a website, it can give a rough idea of the scale of the problem—assuming the site really is down.

Getting “Error 502 (Server Error)!!1” from 142.250.217.78 (“A” DNS record).

Re: All of Google Offline?

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Post by TacticalCoder »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #4

Noticed no domains were resolving. Turned out Google's DNS server (8.8.8.8) is down. Has this ever happened before? I'm scared. Interestingly my VPS in google cloud is the only google product I can see that's working right now.

Wife and I have both been working from home for hours, including using GMail / Google workspace and didn't notice anything wrong...

But then my DNS is always CloudFlare's 1.1.1.3 (no known porn sites, no known malware sites resolving). I used to use 8.8.8.8 in the past but I'm a happy user of CloudFlare's DNS.

More specifically: I use unbound as a DNS resolver and unbound uses 1.1.1.3 then locally I use dnsmasq to cache DNS answers for a little bit.

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