[outages] Google DNS

[Jay Ashworth]

And, more importantly, 'Google DNS' -- specifically Google customer resolver DNS, the stuff they provide at 8.8.8.8 -- is generally IP anycast, so depending on your geographic and network location, you are hitting different servers when you go to that IP.

On May 13, 2021 10:56:34 AM EDT, Warren Kumari via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:41 AM John Cornelius via Outages <
>outages at outages.org> wrote:
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>> Getting reports of issues with Google DNS. Can anyone confirm similar
>> issues?
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>When you say "reports of issues", can you be any more specific?
>Unable to ping the address?
>Not getting any answers?
>Getting answers without the AD bit?
>Getting slow answers?
>Getting wrong answers?
>Only answering over TCP/UDP/<something>?
>Only getting answers to some types of queries?
>Some set of names not resolving (if so, which?)?
>Older names in cache?
>A name was changed and it doesn't seem to be picked up yet?
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>"issues" is a very broad term...
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>> Location:  Kentucky.
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