Google search not working

[pmeswani]

You'll be pleased to know that I can now use Google again.

And the fix was.....?

[Churchill]

And the fix was.....?

He took his woolly mittens off!

[DimPrawn]

And the fix was.....?

Don't know. Just started working magically. Suspect some DNS mischief.

[BrilloPad]

No new ones then?

I will keep checking just in case.....

[Churchill]

I will keep checking just in case.....

Glad you're on the case little buddy!

[threaded]

I just searched for hot lesbian babes and it returned the usual links.

Have you tried YouPorn?

[Sockpuppet]

Have you tried YouPorn?

What do you mean "tried". Its my homepage.

[threaded]

What do you mean "tried". Its my homepage.

[NickFitz]

The other year I couldn't get on to Slashdot. Doing a traceroute, I discovered an ISP somewhere in the US (might have been Chicago?) had let five of its routers get into a forwarding cycle - the packets were just going round and round the loop in that datacentre until their TTL expired, when they were dropped

As a result, I couldn't get to any servers on the west coast of the US. It sorted itself out after a few minutes.

Could have been something like that causing DP's problem?

[Sysman]

Could have been something like that causing DP's problem?

If he's trying from a client site, experience at a few places suggests the most likely cause was the newbie in the network support dept.