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Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-much-else-happens-on-sunday-morning dept.

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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  1. Laugh! by stabChmo · · Score: 3, Funny

    So go search Google!

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  2. Google Web Accelerator by Message+Board · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. So the DNS was down... by Karakth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just 216.239.57.99 it.

  4. Re:SoGoSearch didn't hijack by Kristoffer+Lunden · · Score: 2, Funny
    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.
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  5. Re:Has it gotten to this point yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  6. This hit Microsoft as well by Nichotin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't anyone notice?

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    1. Re:This hit Microsoft as well by Nichotin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seriously, it was not meant as a joke.

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  7. Re:Whois Entries Not Indicative of a Hack by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  8. For Microsoft... by frostman · · Score: 2, Funny

    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
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  9. With google down.. by kun · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  10. I for one, by Aeron65432 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome our Google-slaying overlords.