[AusNOG] Google DNS Blocking/Unblocking

[Damian Guppy]

IP != HTTP / DNS. You are talking about a different layer of the stack
there Damien. What Damian is saying is that the /sorry/ page only helps if
you are getting your HTTP requests blocked, DNS is different.

Adding to the name confusion,
--Damian

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:

> Just FYI, http://ip4.google.com/sorry/ definitely works on an IP address
> level.  At $job-1 we did a lot of in-house SEO/SEM work, and our marketing
> guys were always getting our office IP's sent to this style of captcha
> because of the amount of queries they were doing against google.  Once
> ANYONE had filled out the captcha, then everyone else coming out behind
> that IP was able to use google again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> DG
>
> On 20 January 2015 at 11:18, Damian Menscher <damian at google.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Jan 2015 17:25, Paul Julian <paul at oxygennetworks.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> We have noticed recently that some customers are complaining about not
>>> being able to resolve DNS via Google’s DNS servers, upon further
>>> investigation we have found that we seem to be getting blocked by Google
>>> from pinging or resolving DNS queries to their public servers, does anybody
>>> know if there is some way we can check what the issue might be ?
>>>
>>
>> This smells like a network issue, not an abuse issue.  Not enough
>> information was provided on-list, but if you send a traceroute to
>> noc at google.com they should be able to help you out.
>>
>> The comment about http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/ is false -- that page
>> will give you a cookie if you prove you're not a bot, but HTTP cookies
>> can't help with DNS.  There's no need to memorize that URL... browsers will
>> automatically 302 there if it will help.
>>
>> Damian
>> Author of http://ipv4.google.com/sorry/
>>
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