Google down?

[Sofaspud]

Is it just my connection, or is Google off the air? (google.com, gmail.com, specifically)

If it's just me, can someone hand me the IP address of gmail.com? I can't figure out if my DNS is screwed up, or if they're truly AWOL.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Wiregeek]

google comes up for me.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/google.com

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/#
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Sofaspud]

Huh. That's an awesome link, thanks.

(I'm amused that if Google was working for me at the moment, I'd have used it to look up that very site, most likely)

However, that doesn't help me much since it doesn't expose an IP address. Would you mind, perchance?

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Wiregeek]

http://centralops.net/co/

gmail.com IN TXT v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com 95s (00:01:35)

gmail.com IN A 74.125.65.83 257s (00:04:17)

gmail.com IN A 74.125.65.17 257s (00:04:17)

gmail.com IN A 74.125.65.18 257s (00:04:17)

gmail.com IN A 74.125.65.19 257s (00:04:17)
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Sofaspud]

Thanks, Wire, that did the trick. My DNS got screwed up somehow, looks like. Or the IT dept. decided to block Google and took the cheap (read: ineffective)
route.

(Ah, the hosts file. You are my friend.)

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Bob Schroeck]

... why would an IT department with even a primitive nerve cluster instead of a brain block Google?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Wiregeek]

management
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[robkelk]

... why would an IT department with even a primitive nerve cluster instead of a brain block Google?

Browser-based email services bypass the corporate virus filters - one can download anything from them.

At least, that's the excuse I was given. I know it doesn't hold up to fridge logic.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Sofaspud]

Well, according to my local IT guy, it's not us blocking it. He thinks our ISP is having a DNS problem.

Besides, we use Google too much to block it. Development productivity would plummet if all we had access to was the Microsoft help system -- which, amusingly,
we usually use Google to search, as it's better than MS's own search system.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs