[80651] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: google.com outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan M. Slivko)
Sat May 7 21:29:45 2005
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 21:29:11 -0400
From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jonathan@slivko.org>
To: Daniel Medina <medina@columbia.edu>
Cc: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050508012549.GA16425@columbia.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Daniel,
Hmmm..... I don't think so, but the IP's seem to be different than they
were before from a cached WHOIS. IIRC, didn't Google used to be on
InterNAP and now they're on Cogent/Verio?
-- Jonathan
Daniel Medina wrote:
> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:48:03PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
>>Om Malik seems to think they were hacked:
>>
>>http://www.gigaom.com/2005/05/07/google-hacked/
>>
>>Decide for yourselves.
>
>
> Folks reporting the hijack were most likely infected with adware and
> being redirected.
>
> Oops, I didn't mean "infected with adware". I mean they installed a
> "customized search tool bar", or "web query optimizer" for themselves.
>
> Wasn't Google using Akamai? Is the "L" in "l.google.com" for
> load-balancing?
>
> From the above link:
>
> "Recap: 6:13PM PST: Google was not hacked, but instead had a DNS
> problem. For some the site was redirecting to the SoGoSearch page. All
> services have been restored."
>
