google under attack?

[Skaperen]

for the past couple of days i've been getting occasional failure to connect to gmail. today it was worse. 6 failures to connect in a row. so i did an AAAA query to get the IPv6 address and put that in front of "mail.google.com" and appended that to /etc/hosts an tried again. it pops right up and runs just fine. it seems like maybe their IPv4 is under attack. i cannot imagine a failure at google lasting more than a couple hours.

anyone else seeing any network problems with google?

[poorguy]

No problems here with gmail or Firefox.

[VMC]

I'm not seeing it either using Firefox and Gmail.

[Skaperen]

i could guess that you guys are connecting over IPv6. i was told there was a way to have Firefox try IPv6 first and fall back to IPv4 if there is no IPv6 address or the connection is refused or does not succeed within a time frame, but i never got an answer when i asked how. all the answers i got from Google used IPv6 exclusively.

but i have no idea at all if you guys are doing IPv6.

too bad most web sites don't try to make things work by IP address.

[VMC]

i disable ipv6