Are Others Experiencing Issues with Google DNS 8.8.8.8?
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CloudyDay92
I've been having persistent problems with Google's primary DNS at 8.8.8.8 not being reachable. This started on January 9th and seems to be happening again. I can't ping or traceroute to 8.8.8.8, and it appears to only affect certain ISPs. Is anyone else having similar issues?
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I'm seeing similar issues here in Wisconsin and also in Ohio. It's kind of frustrating.
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Just a heads up, Google has a history of throttling pings to 8.8.8.8. I use a TCP connection to port 443 every 15 seconds, which helps me check if it's reachable and accepting DNS queries.
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We actually had 2 hours of downtime on the 9th and another hour and a half tonight in the Chicago suburbs.
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Got a call from work about our main internet being down. I had a monitor on 8.8.8.8, and it failed. After rebooting the AT&T equipment, it still didn’t come back like it did on the 9th. I switched to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for monitoring, and that worked fine. I still can’t ping 8.8.8.8 on my Starlink, but I can ping it using my cellphone data. It’s a weird situation.
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I noticed that 8.8.8.8 was down for about 18 minutes on my end. I monitor it alongside 8.8.4.4 using two different ISPs with Zabbix. At first, I panicked because I thought my ISP was completely gone!
NetworkNerd99: Do you keep an eye on any other DNS servers? I monitor several, and even the closest hops from home have been acting weird.
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I've got a couple of sites that still can’t reach 8.8.8.8, one in Northern Wisconsin and another in Chicago. My Ohio sites seem to have recovered now.
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I'm on Comcast in the Chicago area and everything seems fine for me.
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