[nmglug] No google search

[Max Bond]

(Obviously NXDomain hijacking wouldn't cause the problems you're
experiencing, that's more meant to gauge CyberMesa's willingness to tamper
with your traffic.)

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Max Bond <max.o.bond at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you run a couple of commands to test for bad behavior by your ISP?
>
> # Middleware boxes? Won't reveal clever ones.
> traceroute google.com > tr-dns.txt
> traceroute 172.217.11.238 > tr-direct.txt
>
> # NXDomain hijacking?
> dig any ghkdsjfsdfldsfmensdfosdfsdfnwe.net > nxdomain-default.txt
> dig @8.8.8.8 any ghkdsjfsdfldsfmensdfosdfsdfnwe.net > nxdomain-google.txt
>
> # DNS MITM?
> dig any google.com > dns-default.txt
> dig @8.8.8.8 any google.com > dns-google.txt
> curl -IX HEAD google.com > http-dns.txt
> curl -IX HEAD -H "Host: google.com" 172.217.11.238 > http-direct.txt
> (echo -en "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: google.com\r\n\r\n"; sleep 5;) |
> openssl s_client -connect 172.217.11.238:443 > https-direct.txt
>
>
> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Tim Embler <timlists at tristarcreations.com
> > wrote:
>
>> yeah I would have thought the restart would have done it. like you even
>> when the browser can't connect, pinging it still works fine for me too
>> which is why I ruled out dns. I have a feeling you tried this but have you
>> tried clearing all of your google.com cookies/cache? That also temporary
>> fixed the issue for me but I have log back into anything google which makes
>> that a pain.
>>
>> On 5/13/17 1:00 PM, Brian OKeefe wrote:
>>
>> I found many people having this experience on the forums but the efforts
>> that I tried which were solutions for them didn't help me. Like I wrote, no
>> browser that is not in a VM connects to google.com. My ISP is Cybermesa
>> and they tried to help with DNS settings but that's all fine and was never
>> an issue before anyway. I've tried disabling all add-ons for Firefox and
>> that doesn't make a difference. A restart, which would kill all instances
>> of all apps doesn't help.
>> There are many "fixes" out there. Just none of them fix my problem, which
>> is essentially identical to what other users, like you, experienced. they
>> solved the issue. I cannot.
>>
>> On 05/13/2017 12:50 PM, Tim Embler wrote:
>>
>> While this issue is sad I am still so happy to see someone else having
>> this issue and it is not just me. Like you I have searched everywhere and
>> have not been able to find anyone else having this issue. Are you using
>> Chrome/Chromium? I was using Chromium at first but when the issue started I
>> switched to Chrome which did also have the same problem. I have not tried
>> using Firefox for an extended amount of time to see if that also has this.
>> If I kill all instances of Chrome/Chromium it will connect to google again
>> but after a few hours the issue comes back where it will not search/connect
>> to google.com. You do have to make sure you kill all instances of
>> chrome/chromium for that temporary fix to work. On a permanent fix I have
>> no idea at this point.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/13/17 12:40 PM, Brian OKeefe wrote:
>>
>> Hi all. Sorry to have missed meetings and not been in contact so it's a
>> bit awkward asking for help. But I will!
>> I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on an acer laptop. Until a few weeks ago all
>> things google worked fine and it was my primary search engine. It started
>> slowing down trying to connect to google.com, www.google.com,
>> http://www.google....you get the idea. Eventually, about 2 weeks ago it
>> just stopped connecting at all. So:
>>
>> I checked every forum and help page I could find. I changed DNS servers
>> to open DNS, googleDNS, changed all configuration files to reflect those
>> changes, many command line instructions and on and on. None of the Solved
>> marked issues solved my problem even though the symptoms were the same.
>> I run 2 VMs, Ubuntu 16.10 and FreeBSD. Both of those machines can use
>> google as normal. that seems weird to me.
>> I can load something like groups.google.com and then chose apps like
>> gmail, drive, photos and several others but not calendar or maps (which is
>> what I really want). I can use all those apps on the VMs though.
>> In 16.04 no browser loads google. com
>> I can ping google.com with no packet loss.
>> I'm stumped.
>> Help?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brian
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