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Re:All of Google Offline? by pcthrowaway on Thursday December 05, 2024 @04:57AM (#42326609)
Noticed no domains were resolving. Turned out Google's DNS server (8.8.8.8) is down.

Has this ever happened before? I'm scared.

Interestingly my VPS in google cloud is the only google product I can see that's working right now.

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Re:All of Google Offline? by TacticalCoder on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:22AM (#42326736)
Wife and I have both been working from home for hours, including using GMail / Google workspace and didn't notice anything wrong...

But then my DNS is always CloudFlare's 1.1.1.3 (no known porn sites, no known malware sites resolving). I used to use 8.8.8.8 in the past but I'm a happy user of CloudFlare's DNS.

More specifically: I use unbound as a DNS resolver and unbound uses 1.1.1.3 then locally I use dnsmasq to cache DNS answers for a little bit.

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Re:All of Google Offline? by worksonmymach on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:34AM (#42327602)
TIL! I'd love a 1.1.1.4 (plus adblocker) and 1.1.1.5 (plus adblocker plus social media blocker)
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Re:All of Google Offline? by gtirloni on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:33AM (#42328577)
NextDNS let's you manage that plus a ton of other features.
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