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Gmail is down
Gmail has been down for hours now. For those of us who use Gmail for business-related activities, it really sucks. Google apps for domains also seems down. There's a special discussion group, called Gmail down, specifically to allow users to share information about such outages.
![krigsman-michael-author.jpg](https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/3e12b94f2810fdd855a6d2de90007db14b694a6b/2019/08/21/20fa0fef-eaac-4c13-8660-6c9ddfbcf9f3/krigsman-michael-author.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&frame=1&height=192&width=192)
Update 4/21/08. 5:00 pm EDT: Seems it was an isolated outage. Google's press office never responded to a request for comment made this morning.
Update 4/21/08. 9:00 am EDT: Gmail seems to be working fine for some people. I tried the Windows hosts file fix suggested in this thread, and now Gmail works for me. I suspect there is a DNS issue affecting some ISPs but not others.
Gmail has been down for hours now. For those of us who use Gmail for business-related activities, it really sucks. Google apps for domains also seems down. There's a special discussion group, called Gmail down, specifically to allow users to share information about such outages.
Here's a screen capture showing the current state of Gmail:
![Gmail is down](https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/2014/10/03/75f0d3ca-4b57-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57/gmail-is-down.jpg)