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Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey

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Google is not down, half BGP routing table is gone. Lots of services are not working, but it has notighing to do with google.

Is the source known?

Test run for the Turkish elections probably.

Must cover germany as well then..

Are you sure BGP is at fault? TCP handshakes were able to comlpete and create a connection. I thought BGP at first as well but if the either BGP border was gone there would be no completed handshakes? Could you paste a log of BGP events at that period or point to a place that has event log related to the outage ?

Adding some facts.

No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected.

If you VPN'd out you were fine. Hilariously, we use tailscale, so thought cool, we'll enable mullvand for everyone, but ofcourse, tailscale needs google social auth to login.. so the fix for our Tbilisi team was install nordvpn, connect to that, login to tailscale, disconnect nordvpn then tunnel out to anywhere.

I spoke to Benjojo (bgp.tools) who heard the incident "was a cable cut shunt near Sofia"

Also in Georgia. I first noticed when Gmail went down. I was working on a site using Google fonts and that was also struggling.

Hetzner was also unavailable from Georgia.

Still is down - cannot access gmail, tried to Google the status page, then realised I'll have to use Bing for that.

Surprised it still hasn't been resolved, the problems have been ongoing for 2 hours already.

Waiting for that post mortem, really interested in how this failed - I'd assume they have dozens of fallback scenarios ready.

I guess this is today's reminder to de-google. It is not healthy or safe to put so much critical infrastructure in one company.

issues with reaching google play in germany. No idea if related to the above mentioned experienced outages

Related Ask NH thread is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124458

One thing I find interesting is that people still react to Google being down, half-way down. ChatGPT was down yesterday, almost no one cared.

because llms are a commodity, but good enough actual search isn't?

Google doesn't provide good enough actual search.

That's not entirely true. They provide (partial) search for both Ecosia and Kagi and both of those to have excellent search results. Google can provide good search, they just don't use it themselves.

ChatGPT typically has two nines of availability, it's down regularly.

Google being down means gmail, youtube, google docs etc are down in addition to search. Other services that depend on google's services are also down. It affects many more parts of workflows or entertainment or whatever.

single point of failure

For me at least ChatGPT was down as well. Does anybody have an idea what they're using from Google?

Term "eastern eu" or "eastern Europe" was always fuzzy to me. If deep down you were never sure where you belonged, use this simple test: when you were a kid and you went to your grandparents house during summer vacation, where did they had toilet? If it was inside the house, it's western Europe. If it was outside the house, it's Eastern Europe.

t. Eastern European. But Google is working here.

I remember going to an outside toilet in the UK...

Or, were there any statues of Lenin on the way... but I think it also shows your age. A person born in 2000 is already 25 years old.

Ukraine can into Western Europe??

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