Is Mercury retrograde or something?
Oct. 27th, 2009 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoThis seems to be shaping up as a week of technology failure. First yesterday's mess at work, which is nowhere near resolved and will have library users throwing rocks through our windows soon because their free internet service is down, and now more this morning.
Mate's computer is in some sort of CHKDSK loop it seems. When booted, it announces that the hard drive is "dirty" and runs CHKDSK which reports no errors but when it gets to "verifying free space" it just seems to stop at 5%. Reboot and the cycle repeats itself.
Google seems to be utterly trashed this morning. Nothing Google related is accessible here. I've poked through DNS and found various apparent referral loops and dead ends. Were they hacked or did they do something to cause a massive failure? Hard to tell, since so much depends on them now. Everything is down.
Ever look at the results for "whois google.com" ?? What's with that? I dunno if you normally get such gibberish as GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM and GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM and many other such obnoxious entries or if this is a symptom of what's going on. Way down at the bottom you still find what should be the normal entry for google.com, though. Their own name servers are up, but all the public name servers I tried this morning couldn't locate www.google.com or mail.google.com or anything else in their domain.
Mate's computer is in some sort of CHKDSK loop it seems. When booted, it announces that the hard drive is "dirty" and runs CHKDSK which reports no errors but when it gets to "verifying free space" it just seems to stop at 5%. Reboot and the cycle repeats itself.
Google seems to be utterly trashed this morning. Nothing Google related is accessible here. I've poked through DNS and found various apparent referral loops and dead ends. Were they hacked or did they do something to cause a massive failure? Hard to tell, since so much depends on them now. Everything is down.
Ever look at the results for "whois google.com" ?? What's with that? I dunno if you normally get such gibberish as GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM and GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM and many other such obnoxious entries or if this is a symptom of what's going on. Way down at the bottom you still find what should be the normal entry for google.com, though. Their own name servers are up, but all the public name servers I tried this morning couldn't locate www.google.com or mail.google.com or anything else in their domain.
