In recent hours, users and network administrators around the world have reported issues accessing Google's public DNS servers, specifically the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

These servers are widely used by end users, ISPs, servers, and critical services that rely on fast, stable, and secure DNS resolution. Therefore, their inaccessibility can have cascading effects: from the inability to load websites to failures in services that rely on external APIs, email, and more.