[sclug] Debian googlemail issue

[Simon Reap]

On 16/01/2013 12:55, Neil Haughton wrote:
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>> Have you got an entry for mail.google.com in your /etc/hosts?
>>
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>> 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?
Yes, you are right!  I only asked because I've fallen foul of this 
before - I had to have an /etc/hosts entry for an external host (broken 
DNS at the time), but eventually a) the DNS was fixed, and b) the 
external host moved IP address.  My hack had been working for so long 
that I had forgotten how I'd fixed it in the first place.