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biglair
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biglair

Anon

Can't access Google domains.

Im in the cleveland area and I cannot access any google domains. (mail.googele.com, reader.google.com. www.google.com, blogspt.com, etc)

I can get to any other site, it's only google i can't access. Is anyone else having this problem?

Jon5
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Lisle, IL

Jon5

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Working fine here.

MacThrasher
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Chagrin Falls, OH

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Working fine in Chagrin Falls, Ohio
aguy1
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Chicago, IL

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I've been having the exact same problem in Chicago. All other domains are fine.

Dennis
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Algonquin, IL

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can you ping or traceroute to them?
username19613
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I am in Cleveland and I have no issues with google domains. I should mention that I use my own DNS servers not AT&T. Maybe the problem is with the DNS servers. I am also with the static IP plan

David
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join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL

David

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Well I just checked my google account and got there just fine with these domains

Connection Type
PPPoE
DNS 1
151.164.8.201
DNS 2
66.73.20.40

Dennis
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drives me nuts when people pop in like this and never follow up on it

sandiego
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same problem here in san diego. no idea why. i can get to every other site. help please?
aguy1
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Chicago, IL

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Can't ping or traceroute to them. I've tried flushing the DNS cache to no avail.

Dennis
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join:2001-01-26
Algonquin, IL

Dennis

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ok, whats the first 3 octets of your IP?
aguy1
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Chicago, IL

aguy1

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Not at home now (working at a t-mobile hotspot -- in part so I could check my gmail) but will get back to you later today.

Dennis
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ok, well based off the original poster's domain...he isn't even an AT&T DSL customer. Looks like he's on a dedicated T1 or something.

So...whatever your issue is, it's probably not related to his.

rolande
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rolande

MVM,

Yup. Dedicated circuit.

6  VIP-Medical-Mutual-Services-LLC-1156500.cust-rtr.ameritech.net (67.37.20.150)
 
aguy1
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Chicago, IL

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Thanks for your help. Problem has persisted now for at least five days.

IP address = 68.252.246.xxx

Don't know if results from nslookup google.com are useful, but, if so, here they are.

Server: dnsr1.sbcglobal.net
Address: 68.94.156.1

Name: google.com
Addresses: 72.14.207.99, 64.233.187.99, 64.233.167.99

Dennis
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Algonquin, IL

Dennis

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Ok, that's rback2.chcgil.sbcglobal.net...I just logged in and got an IP in the same pool as you.

ip address 68.252.254.228 (applied)

I had no issues surfing to google, google news, or blogspot. i even just logged into my gmail for the heck of it.

Whatever the problem is, it's not AT&T
aguy1
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Chicago, IL

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You are right. I just tried a friend's laptop. Connecting through the same wireless router, the friend's laptop can connect to (and ping) google. My laptop, as well as my wife's, cannot.

I can't find any differences in the settings. If the problem were limited to web access, I would suspect a setting in the browser, but the fact that ping works on one computer but not the other has me mystified.

Any ideas?

**Edited with One additional data point**
ipconfig /all on my wife's machine and mine both have a "host name" and "primary dns suffix" that seem to be set through work.

Friend's computer does not.

Could this be the problem?

NormanS
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said by aguy1:

ipconfig /all on my wife's machine and mine both have a "host name" and "primary dns suffix" that seem to be set through work.

Friend's computer does not.

Could this be the problem?
Could be. I don't think that I have ever seen a "Primary Dns Suffix" field populated for home users. I believe it has something to do with running a local DNS server on a LAN. The "Primary Dns Suffix" could also be related VPN, I expect...

Mine looks like this:
C:\Documents and Settings\Norman>ipconfig -all
 
Windows IP Configuration
 
        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : KOZUE
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : aosake.net
 
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
 
        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : aosake.net
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-17-31-C6-CC-63
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.102.34
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.102.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.102.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, September 10, 2007 20:53:15
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 13, 2007 20:53:15
 
AFAIK, there will always be a "Host Name"; equal to whatever you named the computer when you set up the LAN (NetBIOS name).

Comcast Guy
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Last night I had an issue where I could not access google.com for about 15 minutes then it worked. During that time, I could access gmail.com

Tonight I cannot access either normally.

However, and here's the weird part, I can ping google.com and get replies. So I can visit google.com with that IP.

I can only access gmail via httpS://gmail.com

THis is on 3 computers on my little home network.
aguy1
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I've done some additional testing. I can ping and tracert google through the router's ping test (on the linksys router pages). But not, as previously reported, from my laptop or my wife's. This has been going on for almost a week now and is very frustrating.
psx_defector
join:2001-06-09
Allen, TX

psx_defector

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Post your complete trace.

You probably have some host file redirect or some other stupid thing going on. Obviously, Google ain't down, others are able to get to it via AT&T, down to the same router, and you can hit it via the Linksys trace utility.

Jon5
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Lisle, IL

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Maybe I missed it but... Have you checked your host file yet?
aguy1
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aguy1

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I'm afraid that no one will want to help once I ask this question, but what is a host file and where do I find it?

Jon5
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Lisle, IL

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Jon5

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C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Open it with notepad.

There may be more or less in there but you should see something like...
 
#
# copyright (c) 1993-1999 microsoft corp.
#
# this is a sample hosts file used by microsoft tcp/ip for windows.
#
# this file contains the mappings of ip addresses to host names. each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. the ip address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# the ip address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# for example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host
 
127.0.0.1       localhost
 
 

p0o0o0h
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Anon

I am located in Austin, TX accessing internet via AT&T DSL and no luck with google.com either..
aguy1
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Host file is normal.
Now that I understand Domain Name Resolution better, I also checked the registry to make sure that priorities (DNS v. host etc.) are default. They are,

Tracert looks like this:

Tracing route to google.com [72.14.207.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms adsl-68-252-255-254.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68
.252.255.254]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms bb1-g7-0.chcgil.ameritech.net [151.164.242.208]

6 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms ex1-p2-0.eqchil.sbcglobal.net [151.164.42.149]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 58 ms 9 ms 12 ms 209.85.250.237
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
... (12-30 are identical to 10 and 11).
aguy1

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See above for trace. Thanks for your help.

rolande
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So the interesting thing is that the last hop before you timeout is owned by Google.

whois -h whois.arin.net 209.85.250.237
 
OrgName:    Google Inc. 
OrgID:      GOGL
Address:    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City:       Mountain View
StateProv:  CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country:    US
 
NetRange:   209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255 
CIDR:       209.85.128.0/17 
NetName:    GOOGLE
NetHandle:  NET-209-85-128-0-1
Parent:     NET-209-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NameServer: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Comment:    
RegDate:    2006-01-13
Updated:    2006-06-01
 
OrgTechHandle: ZG39-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Google Inc. 
OrgTechPhone:  +1-650-318-0200
OrgTechEmail:  arin-contact@google.com
 

When I traceroute to the same destination IP [72.14.207.99] I can get a few hops further into Google's network before I get timed out. That is perfectly normal to get timed out at the edge of the destination network by a firewall that doesn't permit those types of ICMP packets through.

In your case, you are not getting as far, before timing out. That would indicate that the IP address you are getting assigned from at&t is either being filtered by Google or they are blackholing return traffic to it for some reason.

The fact that we see more than one person complain about this same issue with Google on various parts of the DSL network leads me to believe that Google is doing some sort of auto blackholing of source IPs. In other words, the user who had the IP address before you was possibly part of a BotNet or a zombie and was proliferating bad crap at Google so they shut it down at the edge of their own transit access network. It would not surprise me at all.

Try to release your PPPoE session and get a new IP address and see if the problem goes away.

StillLearn
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join:2002-03-21
Streamwood, IL

StillLearn

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said by rolande:

The fact that we see more than one person complain about this same issue with Google on various parts of the DSL network leads me to believe that Google is doing some sort of auto blackholing of source IPs. In other words, the user who had the IP address before you was possibly part of a BotNet or a zombie and was proliferating bad crap at Google so they shut it down at the edge of their own transit access network. It would not surprise me at all.

Try to release your PPPoE session and get a new IP address and see if the problem goes away.

»www.theinquirer.net/defa ··· le=40371 from June discusses the possibility.

If the problem occurs with a different IP, the person with the problem might look into getting his computer scanned for worms. It is possible that some worm has disabled google access for some reason. It is possible that Google is smart enough to block some computers early.
psx_defector
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Allen, TX

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tracert.txt
1,550 bytes
I'm going to have to agree with rolande See Profile about something on the Google side blocking you.

Both my pipes route directly to the IP you posted, without issue. Of course, I'm not on the Chicago PoP, so it COULD be a problem there.

Try using an open proxy, just to make sure of that. »www.xroxy.com/proxy1196.htm

If you hit the website with the proxy turned on, then we know Google is blocking the IP block. If you can't hit it with the proxy, then it's something on your PC.