Google down? Google hacked/not hacked!
posted May 7th 2005 7:05PM
Not normally something we'd cover, but damn, is Google down? Is such a thing even possible? Anyone know what's going on?
UPDATE: They're back! Seriously, anyone have any idea what happened?
UPDATE 2: GigaOm has a screengrab of a site called SoGoSearch that Google.com was redirecting to for a little while there. Sounds like somebody got themselves hacked!
UPDATE 3: Ok, to be fair, no one knows for sure that Google got hacked, this story is still developing. But hacked or not, something pretty catastrophic must have happened for them to have a system-wide outage like that. Sounds like there may have been some sort of Denial of Service attack, whether that was combined with a redirect of some kind isn't entirely clear. We'll keep you posted.
UPDATE 4: Google is now saying it was a DNS issue. They haven't said what the source of the issue was.
Yeah, i went to check my gmail and BAM dns error. then i repaired my network. DNS'd! google toolbar search? nothing! google.com? DOA
what gives??
The domain appears to be down, but the IP address works:
http://216.239.37.99/
Don't think it is...
Weird, I mean its frikin Google...i guess all that storage was too good to be true...
Haha! I was right!
:D I made teh frontness page! :P
Works fine here.
It's back up now, but it wasn't working earlier. Google DoSed?
Seems to work fine for me. I live in the UK, by the way.
Geeze, yeah. I was just managing my adwords account and all of the sudden it stopped working. I thought my internet got shut off or something. The last thing I would've expected is Google (of all sites) to be down.
gmail aint working, but the google search is.
Works for me.
google.ca works, but not gmail
Yup, it's down.
can't resolve gmail.com, froogle.com either.
hopefully monday the stock will plummet so I can buy more.
It was definitely down for me for at least ten minutes.
it appears that the DNS entries for all of googles sites were broken. However, you could still search using google by going directly to thier IP http://216.239.37.99/
All seems to be well now, for the most part. Certain google pages still dont come up though.
At least I know i didnt break the interent.. this time..
I can't access any Google sites (froogle, news, etc) from my PC via eiter Firefox or IE, but I can execute Google searches from my Sidekick (Hiptop) and via my PPC (google.com/xhtml)... Weird.
the international google sites work... google.co.uk etc.
its BACK
woah.. thought id never see the day google went down guess theres a first for everything
homepage worked last i checked.. nothing else comes up tho
Firefox has problems connecting, though Internet Explorer Works? Strange.
My friend just asked me if this was a sign of the end times. I'm starting to wonder...
Google working fine from here, but no gmail. They may have lost a particular site, or there may be DNS problems (an attack?)
I think all they did was disconnect for a second.
It's back up now.
http://www.cheesemuffin.info works.
Damn, you guys are quick.... :)
And to think... for a few minutes half the world thought they lost their Internet connection (I checked my cable modem!)
gmail is still down...
I think all they did was disconnect for a second.
It's back up now.
Many other sites are still down, too. Like Domino's. Man, I'm hungry for pizza. =(
At 4:18 Google is back. Google News not. PageRank is not showing yet anywhere.
still down for me
Crazy corrupted DNS.
this just in: microsoft mole infiltrates google and misconfigures their server files to reject people trying to access google.com
Well, the comment I just sent was not able to be confirmed by me becasue I thought gmail was up.
No gmail. :(
I knew my internet connection was up though, because I had other sites running and my Messenger.
But the weird thing is, the Gmail notifier is detecting new emails, but when I click on it it says : gmail.google.com cannot be found.
Gmail is still down for many people
Gmail pop mail still works, and if you visit Google.com for the first time (try clearing your cache, cookies, etc), it will forward you to your local google, i.e. Google.com to Google.co.uk.
My friend who works at google says someone there was actually working for microsoft and they want MSN search to succeed so he messed with google.
Nothing quite gets a geek's heart racing like a Google outage. For a few minutes. all of nerdom came to a total standstill.
www is up, but http://news.google.com doesn't work for me. wow.
Oh Noes! What we will do without Google? The world is coming to an end!
Someone hold me. Preferably a 18-27 year old attractive wom
****Carrier Lost****
#22, it always does that for people in Canada. Auto-forwarding from google.com to google.ca, I mean.
My adsense ads aren't showing on any of my websites and I can't find the google adsense page. Something strange is happening! Must be some kind of alien invasion ;)
$ whois google.com
[...]
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.
ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM
[...]
LOL!
Everything Google went down on me for about 20 minutes, then google.ca came back, but gmail and most other apps are still down at 4:22 pacific time. A little wake-up call for all of us out there leading the march to web-based applications.
Google and gmail are down.... it's the end of the world!!!!
RUN FOR YOU LIVES!
hacked? double wow. I'm heading down for the basement.
Holy crap.... if google got hacked, then what on the net is safe? O_o
Its back up!
#28,
?
Were you simulating a Whois?
I didn't really get the joke in the URLs.
Google didn't get hacked.... browsers go though all possible combinations when a given address doesn't work so that gets:
www.google.com.net
www.google.com.org
www.google.com.com
etc...