Closed
Bug 69227
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Re-directed to www.google.de
Categories
(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)
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VERIFIED
INVALID
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(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: darin.moz)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215
BuildID: 2001021508
Type "www.google.com" into the address box. Type Enter.
Ultimately the page www.google.de is loaded. I'm not German, but in the UK
expecting to go to the site www.google.com
If this is some DNS lookup problem it seem specific to Mozilla. Loading IE and
repeating takes me to the the expected English language site.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See description
Actual Results: See description
Expected Results: See description
Comment 1•24 years ago
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I get something like
HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://www.google.de/
even when I send a plain (without "User-Agent:")
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.google.com
So this looks not like a bug in Mozilla to me.
Maybe Google looks at your IP address and treats it wrong.
But I am German and the IP address I get by my ISP resolves to a *.de name.
Therefore it may be that Mozilla's UA string causes the error.
Reporter, have you tried this with cookies disabled? Google uses cookies.
Also, make sure you try with the same IP address in both Mozilla and IE (i.e.
use the same proxy configuration and don't cut the connection to your ISP
between both tries).
sounds like when we understand what's happening we'll resolve as invalid,
although it is interesting and i'd like to know what's going on first...
Assignee: asa → darin
Component: Browser-General → Networking: HTTP
QA Contact: doronr → tever
Interesting, both .com and .de site's are located in the UK, on the same server.
Just try this to proof that:
ping www.google.com you get a reply from google.lb.google.com 64.209.200.100
ping www.google.de you get a reply from google.lb.google.com 64.209.200.100
tracert www.google.com and tracert www.google.de ends at 64.209.200.100
Also note that I don't get a HTTP/1.(0/1) 302 Moved Temporarily. And I did use a
protocol analyser for that.
Reporter, can you attach your "tracert www.google.com > file.txt" to this bug??
Comment 5•24 years ago
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www.google.de has CNAME www.google.com
www.google.com has CNAME google.lb.google.com
Asking ns.google.com I get 5 nameservers for lb.google.com. With all but the
last (helbdns.google.com) I get errors.
google.lb.google.com has A 64.208.34.100
A 64.208.32.100
A 64.209.200.100
A 216.239.37.100
for me www.google.de has CNAME google.lb.google.com but that doesn't matter
because it ends up at 64.209.200.100 anyway. I'm unable to reproduce the DNS
errors here, so that might be related to local network routing in Germany.
Andreas, when do you see those errors? Can you attach a trace route output?
When you resolve those addresses, where does it stop, what is the last address?
Comment 8•24 years ago
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No problem with tracert. But I cannot connect to them on port 53 using tcp.
Not tried with udp.
Tried another thing: Connected explicitly to the 4 IP addresses, but using
"Host: www.google.com" and without any "User-Agent:".
Got "200 OK" for 64.208.34.100, but a 302 redirecting to www.google.de for the
other 3. My IP address was 145.253.166.209, resolving to
muedi4-145-253-166-209.arcor-ip.net (known as German).
If I do the same from my website located in Nevada i get a 200 for all 4.
I'm pretty sure now that this is a problem at Google.
Suggesting to mark this bug invalid.
Comment 9•24 years ago
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Sent mail to dns-admin@google.com and webmaster@google.com.
Updated•24 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Comment 10•24 years ago
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Got answer from Google:
--8<----
Hi -
As you have noticed Google has recently started using IP-address detection to
help our users find our foreign
destination sites. Unfortunately, our IP-address detection is not perfect and
you are being inappropriately
redirected. We are working on the problem. In the interim, you can regain your
old Google.com experience by
simply clicking on the "Google.com [English]" link in the footer of the page.
By clicking on this, Google will
note that you have opted out of the foreign domain site and you will no longer
experience redirects.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
The Google Team
--8<----
Resolving INVALID.
Comment 11•24 years ago
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Hi, Google is attempting to redirect some users to a country-specific home page
(German users get sent to google.de, for example) base on the IP address. We had
some bad data on a few subnets though, esp. some Class C blocks that UUNet uses
in the UK. These problems should be fixed now--sorry that you got this bug
report.
Matt Cutts
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