The Other Search Engines

**david** · 10-22-2002, 06:41 PM

Has anyone been having problems accessing Google today (Tuesday)? Since about 2pm (UK time) Google.com seems to be disappearing and reappearing. At random times I can't access particular versions of the site (e.g. .com was down, but the university search system worked. Later on .co.uk didn't work but .com did, then .com did and .co.uk didn't, but groups seemed to work all the time (except earlier on for a while)).

As you can see, it all seems to be very erratic. I don't think its a computer problem or an ISP issue as I've been using both Demon and Pipex today... I suppose it could be something on the BT ADSL network (can't think what, though...)

Anyone else had this happening?

**TimSchroeder** · 10-22-2002, 10:40 PM

I have not had the problem, but I do notice that Google has updated today!

**david** · 10-23-2002, 06:33 PM

It seems that there was a DOS on the DNS yesterday:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27731.html
probably why I couldn't access Google..

Thanks for letting me know about the update Chief. I'll take a look at my new rankings. Looks like its managed to get one of my pages into the cache as a MySQL error though!