[kwlug disc.] www.google.ca does not resolve

[Paul Nijjar]

--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Joe Wennechuk <youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have heard that ISP's are trying to redirect requests
> for non existent web pages to advertising sites. 

This is true. Rogers is doing this, and I think OpenDNS also does
this if you don't register. 

> I 
> don't think that google's ip changes that often,
> cant you just put in a number into hosts or something for
> google, so it resolves locally instead of through DNS on the
> web?

This is a reasonable idea. The reason that Google fails is because
www.google.ca points to www.l.google.com, which points to a bunch of
addresses like a.l.google.com . So maybe I should take the IP number
for a.l.google.com and use it for google.com? 

Of course, it would be better if DNS just worked. But I guess in this
brave new future that is too much to ask for. It also does not help
for the other domains that (for similar reasons?) don't resolve. I
have a feeling that the many levels of indirection are to blame here,
but who knows. 

- Paul




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