Is Google Down? - EU Networking Issue

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edit: Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey can't access any Google services

Google services are experiencing a widespread outage in several Balkan countries, with users reporting issues accessing various Google services, sparking discussion about the cause and impact of the outage.

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modinfo

4 months ago

2 replies

No. It works for me.

64 bytes from lhr35s10-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.206.46): icmp_seq=1 ttl=110 time=47.9 ms

polmolea

4 months ago

1 reply

I can ping it too but get 502 errors on google.com and youtube.com

modinfo

4 months ago

Google and YT works for me just fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo4bA4p3MBQ

Maybe depends on region

vtemianAuthor

4 months ago

PING google.com (172.217.17.142): 56 data bytes

Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

qpiox

4 months ago

1 reply

Probably the rest of the Balkans too.

mzajc

4 months ago

Still up in Slovenia for now.

mrtksn

4 months ago

2 replies

It's not limited to Google, now I wonder if this is actually a Cloudflare/other CDN/International Infra issue or is it that so many services use Google Cloud stuff and they are gone too because of it.

kuylar

4 months ago

1 reply

I feel like it's an issue in the Google infrastructure as all services which are down seem to be related to Google.

Another example is the HN API, which runs on Firebase.

Sanctor

4 months ago

Spotify as well. I believe they switched from on-premises to Google cloud in 2023.

mahdihabibi

4 months ago

1 reply

I think all affected websites run on google infra somehow, it's not a cloudflare problem .

(I love how we are using abreviated "infra" bcz we can't google how to write the full word)

elashri

4 months ago

1 reply

It is funny because this is one of the very few words I learned while a kid to construct it from other parts.

So it is "infra" + "structure" but structure is common word so I need to remember how to write "infra" only.

The most bizarre one is the word "yesterday" which I memorized as "yes" + "ter" + "day" and don't ask me why "ter" because I don't remember.

jraph

4 months ago

2 replies

How do you manage "Wednesday"?

elashri

4 months ago

2 replies

I don't, for that I usually rely on search engine or autocorrect. I hate the fact that it is not pronounced as it is written. Because I always go with "Wenesday" on my own.

jraph

4 months ago

Ah, yet it's easy!

The day of Wednes. Wednes, old spelling of wedness, the state of being wed.

(So my comment is not totally useless, I'll link to the actual etymology for the ones who are now curious - my sibling comment already alluded to it)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wednesday#Etymology

card_zero

4 months ago

I'm generally for spelling reform, but I like Wednesday's reference to Odin/Woden. Maybe respell it Wedensday and pronounce it like that too.

mahdihabibi

4 months ago

I'd go all iso format when it comes to that. do you mean "Wed SEP 3"?

adontz

4 months ago

1 reply

Same in Georgia

adontz

4 months ago

In particular the following are not accessible ajax.googleapis.com fonts.gstatic.com gmail.com google.com www.googletagmanager.com www.youtube.com

ryzvonusef

4 months ago

1 reply

https://x.com/netblocks/status/1963507222685573522

    > ℹ Note: Multiple online services including Google Search and YouTube are currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #GoogleDown

ryzvonusef

4 months ago

Currently working fine for me in Pakistan. Btw, you can run https://api.webprobe.org/scan/ in a spare tab in the background and it will periodically check the status of such websites and update the NetBlocks status.

gloosx

4 months ago

2 replies

>Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI

>One of the largest outages in the history of Google follows

It's probably just a coincidence vibe-bros... :P

bendigedig

4 months ago

Vibe correlations

memorydial

4 months ago

This quote gets thrown around a lot and I always think about what asdfman123 said here:: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991291

splitroute

4 months ago

1 reply

the initial handshake of the connection in the affected countries is going through all the way obviously so the problem is not google services. the issue is in the interim path

I guess either this is an internet exchange collocation, ISP tier 1 fuckup or some of the non-existent agencies were instructed to sabotage connections. Or they did some interception fuckup.

timeobserver

4 months ago

similar conclusions here

dipierro

4 months ago

1 reply

Armenia, down as well.

texeltexel2009

4 months ago

Can confirm, from Yerevan - Armenia. Internet slow, then slows down to a halt in a matter of 10 seconds. Then it'll work in a burtst of another 10 seconds, and go back to nothing at all, and stay like that for minutes at a time. Internet on a National level is fast. Any connection to the outside seems to go through a bottleneck.

Liriel

4 months ago

Can confirm issues! I can't log in for a google meet call at all.

ddorian43

4 months ago

Yes, google, youtube, gmail

temi4000

4 months ago

Yes...

neoaggelos

4 months ago

same from Greece, ping works (intermittently), curl returns 502

    $ ping google.gr 
    PING google.gr (142.251.140.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from sof04s06-in-f3.1e100.net (142.251.140.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=111 time=35.1 ms
    64 bytes from sof04s06-in-f3.1e100.net (142.251.140.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=111 time=47.7 ms
    ^C
    --- google.gr ping statistics ---
    2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms

    $ curl google.gr -v
    *   Trying 142.251.140.67:80...
    * Connected to google.gr (142.251.140.67) port 80 (#0)
    > GET / HTTP/1.1
    > Host: google.gr
    > User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
    > Accept: */*
    > 
    ^C

ahmetozer

4 months ago

mee too Edit: Firstly their ingresses are not respondable Followup, this impacts all of the traffic which is originated from balkans.

cbg0

4 months ago

Google Apps and cloud status page down in Romania.

hvenev

4 months ago

Our GCP VMs are also not responding (europe-west4-a and us-central1-b).

edit: Seems to be a network problem. We can't connect to them from Bulgaria, but we can connect to them from the US.

cranberryturkey

4 months ago