Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey

[boianmihailov]

Google is not down, half BGP routing table is gone. Lots of services are not working, but it has notighing to do with google.

[splitroute]

Are you sure BGP is at fault? TCP handshakes were able to comlpete and create a connection. I thought BGP at first as well but if the either BGP border was gone there would be no completed handshakes? Could you paste a log of BGP events at that period or point to a place that has event log related to the outage ?

[taubek]

Is the source known?

[simonvc]

Adding some facts.

No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected.

If you VPN'd out you were fine. Hilariously, we use tailscale, so thought cool, we'll enable mullvand for everyone, but ofcourse, tailscale needs google social auth to login.. so the fix for our Tbilisi team was install nordvpn, connect to that, login to tailscale, disconnect nordvpn then tunnel out to anywhere.

I spoke to Benjojo (bgp.tools) who heard the incident "was a cable cut shunt near Sofia"

[SweetSoftPillow]

Hetzner was also unavailable from Georgia.

[specproc]

Also in Georgia. I first noticed when Gmail went down. I was working on a site using Google fonts and that was also struggling.

[thecupisblue]

Still is down - cannot access gmail, tried to Google the status page, then realised I'll have to use Bing for that.

Surprised it still hasn't been resolved, the problems have been ongoing for 2 hours already.

Waiting for that post mortem, really interested in how this failed - I'd assume they have dozens of fallback scenarios ready.

[buyucu]

I guess this is today's reminder to de-google. It is not healthy or safe to put so much critical infrastructure in one company.

[lashull]

issues with reaching google play in germany. No idea if related to the above mentioned experienced outages

[taubek]

Related Ask NH thread is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124458

[mrweasel]

One thing I find interesting is that people still react to Google being down, half-way down. ChatGPT was down yesterday, almost no one cared.

[leto_ii]

For me at least ChatGPT was down as well. Does anybody have an idea what they're using from Google?

[immibis]

No need to assume Russian action broke Turkey, when Turkey itself is equally corrupt and censorious.

[lostlogin]

De-googling is great, and I found Kagi be a superior product. However their politics aren’t good either. Being neutral and apolitical somehow makes giving money (albeit a small percentage) to Yandex. And that company is a supporter of the Russian state.

No thanks.

[dvh]

Term "eastern eu" or "eastern Europe" was always fuzzy to me. If deep down you were never sure where you belonged, use this simple test: when you were a kid and you went to your grandparents house during summer vacation, where did they had toilet? If it was inside the house, it's western Europe. If it was outside the house, it's Eastern Europe.

t. Eastern European. But Google is working here.

[jlokier]

I remember going to an outside toilet in the UK...

[non_aligned]

Or, were there any statues of Lenin on the way... but I think it also shows your age. A person born in 2000 is already 25 years old.