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Google outage reportedly caused big drop in global traffic

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Ugh, this is such poor reporting. It took out 40% of global traffic to this one tiny analytics provider - NOT the whole internet. It's worded very poorly in GoSquared's blog post, but that doesn't forgive what should be basic reading comprehension.

Note that it says "requests", not even traffic, so it's likely HTTP(S) only.

Has anyone figured out what caused this yet? I'm interested in knowing what took out all of Google.

It was a bad DoS config push that caused a general GFE crash.

The outage lasted less then 5 minutes, so not that interesting.

On a more interesting note, the Helpouts leaker has been identified and fired: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgearison

And in related news you might want to ask Jean Baptiste Quéru how feels about having been fired after having spent years working on AOSP.

That's Google for ya.

It wasn't all of Google, but just their search.

Well according to a friend of mine who works at the Goog it affected them internally as well, things like C.I. infrastructure and the like. So I doubt something that large goes down "all at once" but it seems it was more than search.

Oh, my apologies then. It seems odd that everything was affected, and simultaneously too. Perhaps Skynet is online now and it's testing the reaction time and impact of its reach.

I didn't even notice. I'm loving DuckDuckGo.

You're loving DuckDuckGo and don't have customers coming from Google.

The first thing I thought of was 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore'.

DeepField says it was a 10-15% overall drop.

http://www.deepfield.net/2013/08/googalapse/

A lot of people were reporting that other Google services were down as well. I didn't know there was a common link to bring down multiple servers, across multiple services, all at the same time. I thought they ran independently.

Yup, everything I access on Google was down... App Engine, Page Speed CDN, Gmail, YouTube, Analytics. Surprising to be honest, wonder what happened.

tinfoil hat: NSA installed data monitoring tools on all Google traffic during those 2 minutes...

Or a lot of HNers mapped all IPv4 addresses at once with a new tool.

or removed them...

(before oversight hits)

If that's true, then we should be seeing similar outages affecting other services too.

Apple is doing some "planned maintenance" today at 6pm PDT.

dons tinfoil hat

And then there's the NYTimes outage from a few days ago.

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