yes, there was a major network outage at ThePlanet datacenter in Dallas and there are still some routing problems, but they should fix it very soonaaditya said:See, many servers were down from 5 minutes to even 2 hrs. This is the news around many of the webmaster forums. I think there has been some problem with the datacenter (the planet) networks.
aaditya said:The worst part is some guys lost their google ranking too, because these high ranked sites where google bot always visits were down for 2 hr and the bot thought site was gone. So it removed the cached pages. Months of hardwork lost in just a matter of hrs.