Widespread Google outages and internet packet loss

[axial]

-{ Quote: "Many people found Google's search site was extremely slow or inaccessible Thursday, and other reports pointed to troubles with other properties including YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Docs, AdSense, and Blogger.

... Meanwhile, outages have been reported to us all over the world,

... Updated 9:50 a.m. PDT:Our colleague Larry Dignan over at ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18064
notes this report from Just Ping, backing up other report of significant packet loss on the Internet today.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10240875-93.html

[lordpake]

Haa, that explains it then :) I was having freak problems yesterday with gmail and sites using for example googleapi.com domain.

[PROROOTECT]

Yesterday May 15, I had the problem with the Google Translation of Wilders Forums (NO translation??? ), but in the evening it is back to normal.

Maybe it would be a good idea to put ALL Wilders Forums directly in French ( and perhaps in Latin? ... :argh: )

... and another version in ...

P:thumb:

[axial]

In the Larry Dignan at ZDNet blog there's a link to an interesting chart of the outage:

http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/05/the-great-googlelapse/

-{ Quote: "So what does it look like when 5% of the Internet disappears on an otherwise uneventful Thursday morning? The below graph shows average traffic across 10 tier1/2 ISPs in North America from Google’s network (ASN 15169). Outage began roughly at 10:15am and lasted through 12:15pm EDT." }-