Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works – CloudFlare blog

Today, Google’s services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet. The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking. I’m a network engineer at CloudFlare and I played a small part in helping ensure Google came back online. Here’s a bit about what happened.

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