pop.gmail.com oddity

[Peter King]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 06:13:56AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   "nslookup" shows what appears to be a round-robin load-balancing
> setup.  This is consistent with what you've been seeing.
> 
> [d531][waltdnes][~] nslookup pop.gmail.com
> Server:         192.168.123.254
> Address:        192.168.123.254#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> pop.gmail.com   canonical name = gmail-pop.l.google.com.
> Name:   gmail-pop.l.google.com
> Address: 74.125.133.109
> Name:   gmail-pop.l.google.com
> Address: 74.125.133.108
> 
>   Suggestions...
> 
> 1) can you set up your system to accept either of the 2 fingerprints?

Well, here's the relevant options in .fetchmailrc:

 options keep ssl sslcertck sslfingerprint "FF:69:18:0D:75:8C:17:61:F5:EF:FC:F9:85:7D:F5:0E"

That's for pop.gmail.com. 

> 2) failing that, can you hardcode one of the above 2 IP addresses as
> "pop.gmail.com" in your hosts file?

I'll try that, though I suspect Google won't like it one bit.

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