Google served from non-google IPs?

Thu Mar 12 20:05:40 UTC 2015

^ my thought, they're on the QIX public block

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Stephen Fulton <sf at lists.esoteric.ca>
wrote:

> Local Google caches at QIX?
>
> -- Stephen
>
>
> On 2015-03-12 3:58 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
>
>> So today, I saw this:
>>
>> BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$ host google.ca 8.8.8.8
>> Using domain server:
>> Name: 8.8.8.8
>> Address: 8.8.8.8#53
>> Aliases:
>>
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.166
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.177
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.172
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.187
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.151
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.158
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.157
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.173
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.181
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.155
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.147
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.185
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.143
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.170
>> google.ca has address 206.126.112.162
>> google.ca has IPv6 address 2607:f8b0:4006:808::100f
>> google.ca mail is handled by 50 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> google.ca mail is handled by 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> google.ca mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> google.ca mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
>> google.ca mail is handled by 40 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
>> BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$
>>
>> That is not Google IPv4 address space, and those IPv4 IPs are not being
>> announced by 15169.
>>
>> Am I dumb in thinking that this is weird or is this sort of thing
>> commonplace?
>>
>>

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