DNS problem causes Google shutdown
9 May 2005
Google's search engine and email shut down on Saturday night for 15 minutes.
Reports suggest the problem was at the Domain Name System (DNS) server level, though Google spokesman David Krane told Associated Press, "It was not a hacking or a security issue".
During the shutdown, some users attempting to access Google's webpage were redirected to a search engine called SoGoSearch.
"Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time. We have remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide," Mr Krane said. He indicated that Google was treating the incident as a DNS issue.
However, some reports suggest that the outage may be linked to the launch last week of Google Web Accelerator, which offers speed access to webpages via cached or compressed copies of sites from Google's servers.
A message on the Accelerator site on Saturday read: "Thank you for your interest in Google Web Accelerator. We have currently reached our maximum capacity of users and are actively working to increase the number of users we can support."
Google is now back up and running as usual.
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