Its a cloudy day, Google experience outage

Its all over the news this morning, the search Giant services were experiencing slow down on some major cities. Pings on Google.com show packet losses in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Australia, France, China and other locales. The outage began at 8:13 a.m. PDT, according to McAfee's data, and was fixed by 9:14 a.m. PDT. It affected about 14 percent of users but everything is back to normal now. According to McAfee, the probable cause was the attempt of Google to make changes to key Internet routing numbers as part of its ongoing transition from an older networking standard to a newer one called IPv6 but this was denied by Google.


Here is the explanation of Google about the sudden outage:

Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected. That's basically what happened to some of our users today for about an hour, starting at 7:48 am Pacific time.



An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam. As a result, about 14% of our users experienced slow services or even interruptions. We've been working hard to make our services ultrafast and "always on," so it's especially embarrassing when a glitch like this one happens. We're very sorry that it happened, and you can be sure that we'll be working even harder to make sure that a similar problem won't happen again. All planes are back on schedule now.

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