The Google Forum

**wolseley** · 08:14 PM

Probably just a problem my end, so you will probably think I have gone mad!!

I can't connect to google, and no websites with Adsense are showing any ads. Also, I tried to ping google using the ping function on www.dnsstuff.com and just get:

Quote:

Sorry, I could not determine the IP for www.google.com (error 11001).

Anybody else having trouble. or is it just me?

**wolseley** · 05-07-2005, 07:59 PM

Oh, It's back again now. Not to worry.

**bbott** · 05-07-2005, 08:00 PM

Still down for me... The US and UK google. Wonder what's up!

**wolseley** · 05-07-2005, 08:05 PM

Search and Adwords login seem to be back up, but Adsense (both login and on sites) is still down.

**Boston_JM** · 05-07-2005, 08:10 PM

same here it is timeing out wounder if some one is attcking there severs the search engine seems to be loading like 4/10 of the time and gmail 0

**wolseley** · 05-07-2005, 08:18 PM

It looks as though it may be a DNS problem. I don't know what is causing it, but on a side note, I suppose that attacking someones DNS servers would be a pretty good way to launch a DoS attack - especially if combined with a normal attack on their servers.

**wolseley** · 05-07-2005, 08:26 PM

Looks as though it may be a DNS `poisoning' attack. Other people have reported www.google.com as taking them to a different search engine called SOGO (or SoGoSearch).