Is google not working for anyone else?

[underpants]

My google bar doesn't seem to be working. Anything I type in there (Looking for FoxNews site for the nonsensical Hannity last night) and I keep getting Page Will not Display message.

Anyone else?

[meti57b]

1. I cannot access google, either.

[Champ]

2. Hmm

I can.

[demnan]

3. Yep

first Yahoo then Google - wonder if there's a new virus out today.

[Misinformed01]

4. Damn! No Google OR Yahoo!

If DU goes down, I am just going to go cry

[meti57b]

5. looks like google is back up now.

[benburch]

6. I got a server company!

My attempt to access google went to serverbeach.com!

[benburch]

7. And now it is unreachable.

Most strange.

[sus]

8. nope. it's just you. bwahaha!

[benburch]

10. If you can reach it and I and others cannot...

That indicates a root nameserver problem, and a serious one.

[benburch]

13. Tried it from a few other places on the net...

And the name is not resolving. If you can reach it now, likely it is because you or your nameserver have the address of google.com cached. However, this would appear to be a really serious problem, and I expect that the majority of users cannot reach google at present.

[Misunderestimator]

9. No problem here. n/t

[matcom]

11. appears they are ALL Down!

Google
Yahoo
Altavista
Lycos
etc....

:shrug:

[benburch]

14. Again, this points to a root nameserver issue.

It is possible that a major corruption of the root has occurred. If this is the case, ALL sites will become unreachable eventually.

[matcom]

15. yup. that's my guess

both UP and I are on the east coast. maybe a backbone down

[Misunderestimator]

21. Hmmm, maybe you have a point.... being on the east coast

Or at least the Northeast.... in this alternate universe of Florida, no problems. My company routes through Cincinnati though, so maybe it is the east coast. Interesting.

[Misinformed01]

16. Ben, dumb that down for people like me please

I just learned how to use the phone to call Guy James....now I am expected to know what a freaking root server is?

[benburch]

19. When you go to a named site...

The name needs to be looked up and converted to a numerical network address before you can actually connect.

The device that does this lookup for you is called a nameserver.

All nameservers refer, ultimately to a central name directory called a root nameserver.

The system of root nameservers exists to make sure that when a domain name is created, or when its numerical address is changed, that all nameservers get the updated information in a reasonable period of time.

If a root nameserver were to lose its little mind, it could cause all sorts of havok, like directing people to the wrong places, or not being able to direct them at all.

I think that is what may have happened here.

[Misunderestimator]

18. Ok, you guys are living in an alternate universe...

I tried all those sites, and have NO problems. :shrug:

[ps1074]

12. no problems with any sites today

google is working just fine for me :hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Alternate Google URL...

if anyone is having trouble, try http://www2.google.com ...perhaps it will work.

[bif]

20. Google's up, Yahoo's down for me.

n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Same here.

But I only checked Yahoo to see if I could access it...I don't use Yahoo, normally, so I'm not bothered.

[benburch]

22. Seems to be corrected now...

Whatever was wrong is now corrected, at least for me.

[underpants]

24. Yeah google is up and running but Yahoo is still down

no captions today I guess.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. Anyone who can't get to Yahoo, go HERE...

http://204.71.200.67

Seems to be a DNS resolution issue.

[eyesroll]

27. Thanks

Mail is http://66.218.75.184 , but that only works to get to the login screen (after that, it tries to log on and look for a different domain name, and we're back where we started.

[eyesroll]

26. I've got Google, but not Yahoo, and my blog won't load either

What's going on?

It seems like a DNS problem with Yahoo -- I tried typing in their IP address (http://www.hcidata.co.uk/host2ip.htm) and ended up with a Yahoo page (a not found page, but it did resolve to a Yahoo page).

My blog's IP address, though, isn't doing squat -- the outage may be coincidental, though. It's been known to disappear for a few hours here and there.

[JuniperLea]

28. i've had problems

with google and lexisnexis over the past couple of days. if "anyone" wanted to keep the "real" news from getting around, they would have a hard time shutting the 'net down, but messing with the search engines would surely put a damper on things.

[benburch]

29. News just reported...

that this was an attack on the cache provider for these sites.