[nmglug] My weird no google site issue

[Satsangat Khalsa]

Truly wierd!  Is it the Trump Deep State over?   No, their entry is
anotherfaketruth.com;)

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Brian OKeefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> Hi All
> I had written months back that I couldn't get onto most google sites, like
> search, maps, but I could connect to drive, gmail and others. since many
> sites use google I'd get a timed out error. I checked w/ google support,
> cybermesa, every forum I could find. After many efforts I checked
> /etc/hosts (should have sooner but there are so many config files that none
> of the forums even mentioned it.) I run a couple virtual machines, one
> being FreeBsd, and could connect to all google on those. Then that stopped
> too. Looking in /etc/hosts I found:
>
> $ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1    ubuntu-laptop    localhost.localdomain    localhost
> ::1    ubuntu-laptop    localhost6.localdomain6    localhost6
> 127.0.1.1    ubuntu-laptop
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> # Inside /etc/hosts on your Host
> #192.168.56.101 BrianFreeBSD.home.local www.google.com
> anyother.fakesite.com
>
> and found the last line-very weird! I commented it out and everything is
> back to normal. I'm wondering how that entry ever made it into the file
> though?
>
> Best to all the Gluggers!
>
> Brian
>
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