Breaking News. Google vs Comcast?
Posted on September 26th, 2006 in PSA-Types, Dumb Things That Happen, Computer software/hardware, Tech News |
Seems like it. We have a few reports according to the bostonist, along with our own confirmation. This absolutely SUCKS. Apparently, comcast is either intentionally or unintentionally blocking google services. Several reports say so, and I have confirmed atleast an extremely dead google site at our school network which uses comcast. Thank god i have verizon fios. lol. Read it here, and we’ll post updates
*EDIT: this has been confirmed FALSE. Just a comcast dns server fault. YAY!
5 Responses
Hmmm…
Sorry, but not a war on Google.
A DNS server at Comcast died, and I guess Google was the main page that it lead to. Others were probably effected, but I guess Google was the only one large enough to generate a stir. Then again, with the # of hits Google gets, might it have its own DNS server?
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/09/27/comcast/index.php
dns servers belong to each ISP because they provide the internet. they have to create/maintain their own DNS servers otherwise ppl using their line would never be able to even access google.
Ya, and load balancing, logically would say that comcast’s major pages (in terms of outgoing traffic) (google, comcast.net, amazon.com, etc…) would all be on different servers, and then smaller sites (like flashladybug) would just fill different spots to make the traffic to and from each server even. Making it fairly easy to believe that a single server failure could cause these results.
ya know..we should make ourselves an ISP.
joe, lets do it
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:C