[outages] Google DNS

Dan White dwhite at olp.net
Fri Dec 6 17:25:52 EST 2013


I should have noted that during the time that www.google.com was resolving
to 201.130.208.x, access to google.com and youtube.com was unavailable
(timeouts within a browser).

On 12/06/13 14:14 -0800, Damian Menscher wrote:
>Those are valid Google IPs, so this is likely working as intended and you
>were just temporarily being load-balanced to a different datacenter.  If
>you're still concerned, please send me more detail off-list.
>
>Damian
>
>
>On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/06/13 12:41 -0600, Dan White wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/06/13 10:25 -0800, Luke Rockwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody else having issues with google dns?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No problems here (south central US):
>>>
>>> $ time dig +short @8.8.8.8 google.com a
>>> 74.125.225.226
>>> 74.125.225.230
>>> 74.125.225.233
>>> 74.125.225.238
>>> 74.125.225.232
>>> 74.125.225.227
>>> 74.125.225.225
>>> 74.125.225.229
>>> 74.125.225.224
>>> 74.125.225.231
>>> 74.125.225.228
>>>
>>> real    0m0.077s
>>> user    0m0.012s
>>> sys     0m0.000s
>>>
>>
>> One of our DNS servers just had incorrect data cached for google.com and
>> www.google.com:
>>
>> dwhite at quark:~$ dig www.google.com
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.google.com.            IN  A
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.23
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.44
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.34
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.45
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.29
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.30
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.53
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.38
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.19
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.49
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.59
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.57
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.27
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.42
>> www.google.com.     24  IN  A   201.130.208.15
>>
>> After the 24 second cache timeout, the correct (google space) IPs
>> populated:
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.104
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.100
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.101
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.102
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.105
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.97
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.98
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.110
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.96
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.103
>> google.com.     138 IN  A   74.125.227.99
>>
>> I did not notice this on any other DNS servers.

-- 
Dan White



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