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ergosteur
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Bell Mobility DNS for Google resolves to Bell IP

Not sure where to post this...

Recently got a new Bell MiFi 2 LTE mobile hotspot. Today decided to ping Google and noticed I was getting replies from a 184.150.x.x IP, which is a Bell range.

I know that Google has agreements with various ISPs to improve performance, but I've always seen Google DNS resolve to Google IPs at any ISP I've used before (TekSavvy, Bell Fibe, Rogers, Velcom).

Is this new? is this expected?

JC_
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Bell like most ISPs have a local Google cache server on there network.

Trace on Bell DSL to Google.ca
Tracing route to google.ca [184.150.152.153]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  mynetwork.home [192.168.2.1]
  2     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  bas1-ottawa01_lo0_SYMP.net.bell.ca [64.230.200.133]
  3     7 ms    11 ms     7 ms  dis32-ottawa23_7-2-0_100.net.bell.ca [64.230.59.40]
  4     6 ms     7 ms     6 ms  dis37-ottawa23_7-0-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.99.15]
  5     6 ms     5 ms     5 ms  bx1-ottawa23_TenGE1-2.net.bell.ca [64.230.99.24]
  6     6 ms     5 ms     6 ms  184.150.152.153
 
Trace complete.
 

ergosteur
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OK cool, that's what I figured, never saw that when I had Fibe though. Guess I was just being overly paranoid.

BTC Kevin
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probably due in part to bell's thing with them saying they will be allowed to collect personal habits and metrics from usage. Google is loaded to a Google cache proxy server, that most likely records what you search for. I'd set DNS to Google's open DNS.

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said by BTC Kevin:

probably due in part to bell's thing with them saying they will be allowed to collect personal habits and metrics from usage. Google is loaded to a Google cache proxy server, that most likely records what you search for. I'd set DNS to Google's open DNS.

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said by BTC Kevin:

probably due in part to bell's thing with them saying they will be allowed to collect personal habits and metrics from usage. Google is loaded to a Google cache proxy server, that most likely records what you search for. I'd set DNS to Google's open DNS.

Bell, or any other ISP, doesn't have access to the servers or any of its data.

Google provides the hardware and maintains it, the ISP just provides connectivity. Both parties do it at no cost since they both benefit from cost savings in transit.