[sclug] Debian googlemail issue

[Neil Haughton]

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> From: Simon Reap <simon at simonreap.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:24:17 +0000
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Googlemail issue on Debian
> On 15/01/2013 13:05, Neil Haughton wrote:
>
>> BTW I can't ping mail.google.com  and
>> traceroute fails to reach it as well, if that helps.
>>
>>
> Have you got an entry for mail.google.com in your /etc/hosts?
>
>
> No. Should I have? (Alex has suggested it as a temporary fix to try, but I
shouldn't normally need this should I? I though it was bad  practice anyway
because if Google change the address I'm immediately broken)

Oh I get it - you're suggesting this might be the cause?

Neil

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