[tor-talk] DNSPort & googlemail.com

[Mansour Moufid]

On 2012-09-30, at 8:47 AM, Paul wrote:

> When using DNSPort to resolve googlemail.com, I get the 'wrong' address:
> 
> $ host googlemail.com
> googlemail.com has address 173.194.41.150
> Host googlemail.com not found: 4(NOTIMP)
> Host googlemail.com not found: 4(NOTIMP)
> 
> It should be something like:
> 
> $ host googlemail.com
> googlemail.com has address 74.125.230.150
> googlemail.com has address 74.125.230.149
> googlemail.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:4009:801::1015
> googlemail.com mail is handled by 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> googlemail.com mail is handled by 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> googlemail.com mail is handled by 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> googlemail.com mail is handled by 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
> googlemail.com mail is handled by 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

Try using gmail.com instead of googlemail.com:

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=159001

Another solution may be a local DNS server like tor-dns-proxy.py:

http://code.google.com/p/dsocks/