Warning Google Are Under Attack I Blame M$!!

[solemnwarning]

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000610042620/ < i was in ##linux when this horror began, for 10 - 20mins google.com died, sombody hacked into the dns system and altered gooles dns records then changed the whois info, i blame M$ cos they are jealos of google being a good search engine and thier search sucking ass, when will ms attack google again?

[skyman8081]

what proof do you have it is Microsoft?

In fact, a company called SoGoSearch hijacked the domain temporarily to point to their site.


I'm not one to trust screenshots, but thats the best guess at the moment.

[piratePenguin]

what proof do you have it is Microsoft?

In fact, a company called SoGoSearch hijacked the domain temporarily to point to their site.

Wrong. That screenshot was faked. Read the comments section of the report. "DNS poison != Google hacked".
I'm not pointing any fingers yet.

[adiment]

if google was taken down, the whole world would end as we know it!

thanks to google I don't have to think! (and Gmail rox0r's the big 1oneoneoneone`!)

[WMD]

To clear things up, here's how it worked:

1.  The company SoGo Search purchased http://com.net .
2.  Google's DNS servers went down.
3.  Browsers that guess domains (especially Safari, hence the pic) couln't get google.com, so they guessed google.com.net.
4.  google.com.net, a subdomain, doesn't exist, so it redirects to com.net, and the SoGo Search page pops up.

EDIT: As of now http://com.net isn't working.  But it was yesterday.