[dns-operations] What's the story on gmail.fr?

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Sun Jul 6 15:26:12 UTC 2014


> > By the way, as far as i know french people use gmail.com in place of
> > gmail.fr. They won't even notice ! ;)
> 
> Indeed, I've never seen gmail.fr advertised by Google and I'm
> surprised to learn it is used in Norway. Google Search finds only one
> link for gmail.fr :-)

It may not actually be used.

I came across this when investigating SERVFAILs.  These days a large
number of SERVFAILs are triggered by botnets, and thus it is entirely
possible that the queries I found for gmail.fr were also triggered by
botnets.

Steinar Haug, AS 2116



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