bug in gmail-notify

Kevin kevjava at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 11:32:13 BST 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 18:52 -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> I might be possible to simply change all instances of gmail to
> googlemail since US based accounts can use googlemail.com unless I'm
> misunderstanding the bug.

As far as I can tell, they are DNS aliases to a bunch of the same
machines.  The entries aren't all equivalent, but I'd bet they lead to
heads on the same cluster.  

kev at cerddorion:~$ nslookup googlemail.com
Server:		192.168.1.254
Address:	192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	googlemail.com
Address: 72.14.205.83
Name:	googlemail.com
Address: 66.249.91.83
Name:	googlemail.com
Address: 209.85.171.83

kev at cerddorion:~$ nslookup gmail.com
Server:		192.168.1.254
Address:	192.168.1.254#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	gmail.com
Address: 209.85.171.83
Name:	gmail.com
Address: 66.249.91.83
Name:	gmail.com
Address: 64.233.161.83

"dig" came up with more verbose versions of the same information :).

Kevin




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