[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:
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>> BTW I can't ping mail.google.com  and
>> traceroute fails to reach it as well, if that helps.
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> Have you got an entry for mail.google.com in your /etc/hosts?
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Doh!! I have just discovered the following in my /etc/hosts:

209.85.229.18   mail.google.com

Removing this solves the problem.

Only I can have put it there (a long time ago, probably trying to be clever
in avoiding a DNS lookup for frequently used sites).  Google must've
changed their IP addresses without sending me personal notification (what
are they thinking?)


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