Google down

[Zubin Bharucha]

Andy Pieters wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 17:21, James Thorpe wrote:
> 
>>Andy Pieters wrote:
>>
>>>Can anyone check if they can access google?
>>
>>Both google.com and google.co.uk are working here.
> 
> Thanks for that, unfourtunatly they don't here.
> 
> Doing a dig google.com times out
> 
> repeating dig with trace shows that it goes to A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, gets 
> forwarded to A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET, gets forwarded to ns1.google.com but fails 
> there. . .
> 
> Andy
> 
> 


Seems to work fine here.

[zubin at localhost ~]$ dig www.google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> www.google.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39014
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.         624     IN      CNAME   www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com.       7       IN      A       66.249.93.99
www.l.google.com.       7       IN      A       66.249.93.104

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
l.google.com.           65561   IN      NS      e.l.google.com.
l.google.com.           65561   IN      NS      a.l.google.com.
l.google.com.           65561   IN      NS      b.l.google.com.
l.google.com.           65561   IN      NS      c.l.google.com.
l.google.com.           65561   IN      NS      d.l.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.l.google.com.         51929   IN      A       216.239.53.9
b.l.google.com.         40159   IN      A       64.233.179.9
c.l.google.com.         50835   IN      A       64.233.161.9
d.l.google.com.         54612   IN      A       64.233.183.9
e.l.google.com.         51647   IN      A       66.102.11.9

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 10.50.255.250#53(10.50.255.250)
;; WHEN: Mon Nov 21 17:25:45 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 244

[zubin at localhost ~]$


There was a period not long ago today when Google wouldn't load at all. 
Only realized it when my start site (www.google.com/ig) failed to load. 
First time it happened. Was quite shocked.