Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage

An anonymous reader writes "Google suffered a pretty long outage saturday evening, due to some DNS glitches, according to company spokesperson. All Google services were down for a while, including Gmail and Google AdSense. There seems to be a DNS hijack, as some screen grabs show that Google.com was redirecting to another site, SoGoSearch.com. "

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Laugh!

[stabChmo]

So go search Google!

Google Web Accelerator

[Message Board]

Last night, Google Web Accelerator was accelerating just fine... except for the fact that when I tried to make it proxy google.com it told me that the web site wasn't available, and to try search Google for the site. Needless to say, that didn't work either.

So the DNS was down...

[Karakth]

Just 216.239.57.99 it.

Re:SoGoSearch didn't hijack

[Kristoffer Lunden]

A bug that people seem to be ignoring is that whatever browser is shown in the screenshot did not show the correct URL after the .net was appended, but left the original URL in the location bar.

Looks like Safari. And you're right, that's the real problem here, the redirect should be shown at the very least by changing the URL in the location bar.

Re:Has it gotten to this point yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah I'm bad for that. During the outage I tried to Google for another search engine but...

This hit Microsoft as well

[Nichotin]

Didn't anyone notice?

Re:This hit Microsoft as well

[Nichotin]

Seriously, it was not meant as a joke.

Re:Google ruined me (not a troll, please read)

[LibertarianWackJob]

I for one wecome our new CD Store Owner Overlords.
This blacklist idea is the best! We could just put a bit on our new Federal ID cards to show who is blacklisted. We could keep them from buying or selling anything! Food, Gas, ... Why stop at just music? While we are at it we could even use this opportunity to round up thier guns or forcibly steralize them so they can't reproduce!!!

Wow, this is great!

/sarcasm

Re:Whois Entries Not Indicative of a Hack

[AndroidCat]

There's a whois *program*? Damn, I've just been using telnet whois.internic.net 43 all these years!

For Microsoft...

[frostman]

I just tried Microsoft. Hilarious.

frost@louddrunk ~
$ whois microsoft.com|grep MICROSOFT
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.WANADOODOO.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.SUX.BUT.PYROFREAK.ORG.RULEZ.AND.DIOX YTECH.NET.DELETED.GANDI.NET
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.SMELLS.SIMPLECODES.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.CO M
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.AS.COOL.AS.SIMPLECODES.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSH IT.NET
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISS ILES.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.FLINGS.POO.AT.MONKEYCORE.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN -SERVICE.COM
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT. EXEGETE.NET
Domain Name: MICROSOFT.COM
Domain name: MICROSOFT.COM

With google down..

[kun]

With google down who's going to raise my children!?

I for one,

[Aeron65432]

Welcome our Google-slaying overlords.