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

    Didn't anyone notice?

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

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