1. This looks similar to an earlier report at engadget.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000610042620/

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Vinod Kurup

2. I pinged gmail.com and mail.google.com and got two different IPs. Both take you to Google's homepage, not Gmail.

Were you able to IP your way through to Gmail though?

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ForeignDude

3.
That's just about the weirdest Google behavior I've ever seen. Is it even possible for Google to get DOS'd? SoGoSearch.com is now being swamped; I can't get in there. Todd-- did you try using the Toolbar or Deskbar during the outage?

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Brad Hill

4. Sure sounds like a local/DNS issue, but, as with any connectivity issue, if the end points aren't known, there's not much that can be done. I would suggest posting your local (routable) IP in case any Googlers catch wind of this and want to troubleshoot. With a service as distributed as Google's, the address space you come from can have significant ramifications on how your query is served.

-r

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ralph

5. Everything seems to work again. I did try using the Google toolbar and that didn't make any difference. The only thing that worked over about a seven- or eight-hour period today was typing in the IP address.

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Todd W. Carter

6. Had this problem yesterday. I found a page telling me how to flush my cache on my mac and then it came back (this was after hours of being very confused).

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by mike

7. Hey people,

I've been following these comments all day. Is anyone able to log into GMAIL now?

I am in Michigan, ISP is Comcast (which could be a problem of its own), and it's 8:20PM EST right now...

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ForeignDude

8. Theres a file in windows, that stores local dns's where you can assign any ip you want to any domain, its like a virtual domain.

So what someone did was wrote a code that added an entry "www.google.com" and set it to their ip, which was really that sogo site you got.

When you typed in "www.google.com" it sent you to that ip, instead of googles, but in your url bar it will still show "www.google.com".

Example:

The file is located here... C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc

The file name you have to edit is called "hosts"

Go there and add "any ip address" google.com

Now when you type in google.com it will take you to my home page.


To fix the problem, delete any lines in that folder having to do with "www.google.com".


Feel free to email with any further questions.

- sphen

Posted at 4:43AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Sphen