Comments on: Google networking error caused outage

Google's attempt to roll out new networking addresses as part of the IPv6 transition did not work out as planned, causing widespread service outages for about an hour.

[Mr. Dee]

I forgive them, IPv6 is a whole different cup of noodles compared to IPv4, just open your TCP/IP properties in Windows and check out the difference.

[Aaron Kempf]

wow.. uh.. maybe they should stop trying to build their own routers and servers and OS and laptops and languages.. and **** until they can give _ONE_ nine in uptime!

[trejrco]

@MR_Dee: IPv6 routing is largely the same as IPv4 routing, and I think not _really_ relevant - but I will defer further comment until more details are available.

@Aaron: Custom built stuff always has pros and cons, but to be fair I think their average is almost 99.9 for the last 30 days, including this (extra-ordinary) outage. The world is a single point of failure, and you can't engineer every possible problem 100% out of the equation (but Yes, 5 9's would be better ... there is always a cost-benefit aspect :). ).

[timber2005]

Hahahaha @trejrco. I'm in Cisco Academy at ECU. Let me tell you... IPv4 and IPv6 share very little in common.

[trejrco]

Hehehehe @timber2005 - Sorry, but I work with IPv6 daily, teach and develop classes on it and there is a chance I wrote some of the courseware you are using ... and let me tell you, they have more in common than you may realize (yet).

I am not saying differences aren't present, of course they are(!), but there is a large amount of shared ancestry inside ... and from what I have heard the outage was primarily due to an (BGP/ASN?) misconfiguration - nothing due directly to IPv6 as a protocol.

[AlanHub]

hahahaha @this conversation

[trejrco]

@AlanHub - +2 points, you win!

[googleions]

google networking starts at http://www.googleeasteregggs.com

[mrcjacobs]

Funny, I keep hearing about these Google outtages but I've never experienced one. I get dozens of emails an hour and they show up on my desktop/BlackBerry every couple of minutes like clockwork.

[BtmnHatesRbn]

this's like the 10th different version i've read on 10 different websites about the supposed google "outage" that i didn't experience at all.

[johnbayne2]

Google is doing a great job enabling IPv6, I hope that this doesn't slow their effort down. Who cares about them being down for a few minutes? What do you think will happen when Microsoft or Bank of America or FILL IN YOUR FAVORITE COMPANY turns IPv6 on in panic two years from now when we are out of addresses?

www.ipv4depletion.com

[t8]

I am from NZ and I rely heavily on Google's services for my business and I have never experienced an outage.

[M_K_Higa]

What outage? I must have blinked.

I guess my point is that Google has the ability to recover *very* quickly from such events. They are very prepared - lesson to be learned.

[monkeyfun14]

Any major company recovers from outages quickly.

[caffemacchiato]

If Apple can take keep tethering and cut-and-paste on the Bethlehem-phone away from me?permanently, google can take a break once in a while. Go on then, have a quickie.

[databrain]

So that's why i could not get into my Gmail account today! My goodness it seems Google has gotten quite a few outages lately.

[Michichael]

I've never seen an outage either.

[midnightcrafter]

If that had Microsoft or MSN they would have been crucified, This is not the firs time Google has had a problem,eitherand that is why I like MSN.com

[chromatic7]

well.. this could be a possible explanation as to why youtube has been acting so sluggishly lately

[gggg sssss]

Ha Ha. They have their head in teh cloud. Wait till google takes over medical records. Just delay that heart attack a few minutes. LOL

[trejrco]

I don't believe Google is billing their medical record sharing capabilities as a real-time, "critical care" service - are they? My understanding is that it is meant to be a replacement for the current "request a fax" or "drive to previous doctor's office and pay a print fee" model currently in use ... but yes, an outage is always bad (not that I was effected by today's outage).

[cheboncruz]

I can't access google yesterday night at around 11pm (+8 GMT).
Tried proxies and i can access google.

[jcomputm]

Funny, i tried google today and the search engine is fine. I don't know about the other services but all I can say is that it works just fine.

[cohaver]

The DNS Said what? and Routers said your not getting it baby . It all about the GOOGLE with a youtube
We all going to next grade level all those hidden botnet look lost .

[santafesteve]

I was working with three different customers across the state of CA and none of them had any problems accessing Google resources. People don't realize that Google's total up time is still at %99.99999999999. It?s only because they are the biggest game in town that such a minuscule interruption is blown completely out of proportion. I blame that on the mass media, they are excellent at inciting panic and riotous behavior.

[Spanwite]

Santafesteve, you right "blame that on the mass media, they are excellent at inciting panic and riotous behavior"
I didn't had any Problems! >>Google is just great<<

[the liquid man]

why all the crying? It's not like you get charged for using Gmail/Google/etc

[milandevmani321]

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