One google IP address is failing. Is there a way to force a switch to different one?

The Google IP address 74.125.53.100 is failing. I know no one would believe this so I did an online ping:

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As this image shows one of the IP addresses for Google is failing.

However there are others. If I type them in then I can get to Google just fine. But when I try to search, Google reverts back to the broken IP.

Is there any way for me to say "I want to do a search with one of the working IP addresses"?

Vaccano

Posted 2009-10-28T05:55:56.367

Reputation: 5 977

Or, a quick workaround: add .nyud.net, so: http://www.google.com.nyud.net (see http://www.coralcdn.org/ for details)

– Arjan – 2009-10-28T09:42:55.270

Or wait a few minutes, I am not seeing any packet loss from that IP at this time... – Benjamin Schollnick – 2009-10-28T10:10:57.070

I did wait "a few minutes". I posted this after an hour of the IP Address being bad. (Google is so huge that if it does not work, your first suspect should be your computer not google. I did a lot of checking on my side first.) – Vaccano – 2009-10-28T14:51:08.320

Answers

Set up a static resolution in your hosts file pointing google.com to one of the good IPs.

Host File on Windows

phoebus

Posted 2009-10-28T05:55:56.367

Reputation: 3 811

Good idea. Next time it happens this is the route I will try – Vaccano – 2009-10-28T14:49:16.277

Mac/Linux hosts file can be found here (if your doing this from a Mac or Linux):

/etc/hosts

Add this line to the hosts file:

74.125.45.100 www.google.com

(substituting with the IP you want)

user33566

Posted 2009-10-28T05:55:56.367

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