Conspiracy? Google/Orkut/Gmail etc blocked?

[vishalrao]

Well its a boring Sunday afternoon, waiting for the F1 race to start... I simply must start a useless topic Google/GMail/Orkut/Reader , even google.co.in are inaccessible right now...Some other sites seem to be fine... is this a government conspiracy?????

 

[bharathbala2003]

well i also face this problem.. not only google sites.. also yahoo.. and msn sites.. msn messenger.. yahoo messenger.. dunno wats wrong.. mayb the servers that are in the US are down or something? because i can access many other sites.. also google adsense ad's in my site or any site i visit don come.. so doesn page rank etc.. this is wierd

 

[vishalrao]

i hope its not another undersea cable cut

 

[bharathbala2003]

i just checked with pals.. using airtel.. all sites can be accessed.. only bsnl is facing i think.. god save us

 

[vishalrao]

hmmm, strangely, the default google search box in my firefox is working.im using opendns, wonder if the problem is there...

 

[bharathbala2003]

hey that also doesn work for me!

 

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[vishalrao]

at least thankfully my download of kubuntu 7.04 is working at full speed from a norwegian ftp site

 

[bharathbala2003]

i just called up the guys @ bsnl.. seems they are working on the server to rectify the problem and will be solved by evening.. lets see wen its solved..

 

[vishalrao]

that must be the standard reply of the call center folks "server problem, will rectify by evening"!anyhows, the sites are working for me now...

 

[desicooldude]

at what time did u face this problem? Its 2:30PM Sunday now, and all 3 sites are working for me

 

[bharathbala2003]

yeah as soon as i posted my previous post it started workin for me also..

 

[amish]

thats the power of this forum ... sabse tej! LOL

 

[vishalrao]

i noticed the problem roughly between 1pm and 2pm

 

[bharathbala2003]

actually it has cropped up again.. now at about 5

 

[visnbm]

:yahoo: back to normal...