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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:45:23 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> walt wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:11:48 +0000 (UTC) |
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> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing |
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> >>> login to their email servers. Just in the last day or two, |
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> >>> literally. |
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> >> I'm not seeing that with either of my gmail accounts. Same login |
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> >> times as always (1-2 seconds) on both IMAP and SMTP servers. |
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> > That info amazes me, but gives me even more evidence for a |
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> > conspiracy theory :) My ISP (att.com) may be responsible for this |
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> > new delay. |
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> > |
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> > att is involved with the ongoing net-neutrality battles here in the |
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> > US with netflix et alia, so why not add yet another fuzz-factor to |
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> > the mix. |
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> > I hope my email still works when I wake up tomorrow morning... |
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> Makes me wonder. Sometimes when I go to facebook, it doesn't come up |
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> on first or second try. I've seen that with other sites as well. |
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> Hmmmmm. When I get a error, it is instant. It seems to be so instant |
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> that it doesn't even have time to do a DNS lookup much less hit the |
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> website. |
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> By the way, I use AT&T too. DSL after many years of dial-up. |
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I just tried entering the number of the beast ;) 8.8.8.8 |
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into /etc/resolv.conf and that reduced my waiting time from 120 |
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seconds to 30 seconds (actual measurement by stopwatch). |
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I'm done playing now until morning... |
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