Google went down because of "Routing leak" for short period of time.
Mega search engine Google user's suffered accessing its services throughout the day today because of minor routing leak. Even now, some of Google services such as Google search and Gmail don’t appear to be working properly for people in countries including the UK, Netherlands, Iceland, and India, and in other countries
isitdownrightnow.com also confirmed this news:
Lots of people on Twitter also reported issue while using Google services.
This problem occurred due to a ‘routing leak’ as per Doug Madory of Dyn Research. He states in a blog post that the routing leak occurred from an Indian broadband Internet provider which caused Google services to go down.
Routing leaks occur when a network provider broadcasts all or part of its internal routing table to one or more peered networks via the Border Gateway Protocol, causing network traffic to be routed incorrectly.
According to Dyn Research, an Indian ISP Hathway’s boundary router incorrectly announced routing data for over 300 network prefixes belonging to Google to the Internet backbone via its provider Bharti Airtel.
“Bharti in turn announced these routes to the rest of the world and a number of ISPs accepted these routes.”
This caused the supposed routing leak which in turn took down Google and its allied services all over the world.
The leak is identical to a 2012 incident caused by an Indonesian ISP, which took Google offline for 30 minutes worldwide.
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