Google 8.8.8.8 Down Canada?

Posted by icq-was-the-goat@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 19 comments

Cannot ping [8.8.8.8](http://8.8.8.8) from multiple locations? [Google down? Realtime overview of Google status, issues and outages | Downdetector](https://downdetector.ca/status/google/)

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SilkBC_12345@reddit

We had several clients in the Greater Vancouver area contact us about not being able to access the Internet. I can confirm in at least one case 8.8.8.8 was notpingable at the time. This was between approximately 10:30am and 10:50am PST.

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pfak@reddit

Shaw dropped peering with Google temporarily.

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SilkBC_12345@reddit

It affected Telus as well, as a couple clients who are only Telus had issues as well.

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pfak@reddit

Probably using google dns. I have Telus and Shaw at home and my monitoring only showed issues with Shaw.

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MBILC@reddit

This is why you use more than 1 companies public DNS servers. Also many DNS servers do not respond to ping.

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_3470@reddit

Happened to us as well for 10 minutes. During that time we found that the previous admin had setup an ISP failover that was triggered by pinging 8.8.8.8.

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icq-was-the-goat@reddit (OP)

It was Vancouver area also for us.

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Cillu@reddit

Can confirm this happened to us as well.

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MBILC@reddit

As u/GuruBuckaroo noted, Google says not to ping their DNS servers. ICMP can often be dropped anywhere long a path, it is not a reliable method to test for certain if something is up or not. Also, people should be using different DNS servers, not all 1 company...1 from each for as many as you can add. Most DNS systems timeout after about 3 seconds and respond back to the one that replies first. * Cloudflare * Quad9 * OpenDNS * Google

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sysacc@reddit

ICMP was down, but DNS was still working out east.

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MBILC@reddit

As someone else noted, Google says not to ping their DNS servers. ICMP can often be dropped anywhere long a path, it is not a reliable method to test for certain if something is up or not. Also, people should be using different DNS servers, not all 1 company...1 from each for as many as you can add. Most DNS systems timeout after about 3 seconds and respond back to the one that replies first. * Cloudflare * Quad9 * OpenDNS * Google

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Google 8.8.8.8 Down Canada?

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