Google Down in the UK
Various reports of Google being down (including for me) here in the UK. It seems to be a few datacenters so it works some times but mostly not. Reports also talk about G Docs, Mail, and YouTube. Sometimes a redirect to google.co.uk works, but mostly even that fails. Some people can get to google.co.uk if they browse to that directly. I've been logged into GMail since last night and it works OK.
Seems to me that there is a DNS issue at play here in that if your browser requests a fresh IP resolution, it works, but the IP addresses fail. If your browser has an IP address cached it seems you're fine.
Reports:
- Summize, which is a live Twitter search engine: Search for [google down].
- Over at Cre8asite Forums, there is a discussion thread.
Anyone else seeing this?
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July 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Yup, been non-responsive for our little part of Russia, too.
I thought that someone developed some resource-intensive app and left it working for a while to consume the resources =) Could be a human factor, too, tho.