Google is down now : glitches or interim ?

Wow ... google.com is down for the first time ever.

But if you check the ping, it is not really down. Just probably suffering from bandwidth problems.



You can try accessing it through the IP address. It worked a better.



Tracert seems to be fine.

C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon Teoh>tracert google.com

Tracing route to google.com [64.233.167.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1>
2 143 ms 173 ms 50 ms 219.93.218.177
3 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms 219.93.216.181
4 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 210.187.143.1
5 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 210.187.143.4
6 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms 219.94.12.134
7 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms 219.93.177.227
8 17 ms 15 ms 16 ms 219.93.174.67
9 248 ms 247 ms 248 ms 219.93.168.238
10 245 ms 244 ms 245 ms core2-1-1-0.pao.net.google.com [198.32.176.31]
11 245 ms 244 ms 245 ms 66.249.94.19
12 * 297 ms 297 ms 216.239.46.45
13 295 ms 297 ms 300 ms 66.249.95.247
14 304 ms 296 ms * 66.249.94.133
15 305 ms 306 ms * 72.14.232.70
16 298 ms 298 ms 298 ms 64.233.167.99

Trace complete.

Continously PINGing shows discrepancy.

C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon Teoh>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.189.104] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 64.233.189.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon Teoh>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [64.233.187.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=309ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=307ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=310ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 64.233.187.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 307ms, Maximum = 310ms, Average = 308ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon Teoh>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [64.233.187.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=307ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=307ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=308ms TTL=242
Reply from 64.233.187.99: bytes=32 time=307ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 64.233.187.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 307ms, Maximum = 308ms, Average = 307ms

So, it is down but not out.

Comments

Brandon Teoh said…
This problem is local.

Restarting the router would do.

google.com is probably over-cached.

This means that it has been accessed many times over.