[nmglug] My weird no google site issue

[Kenny Long]

That last line is commented out. Very strange, indeed.

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Satsangat Khalsa <satsangat at khalsa.com>
wrote:

> 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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