Highest scored 'google' questions

38 votes

4 answers

33k views

Does Google Domains support CNAME-like functionality at the zone apex?

This functionality is required for properly directing a root domain to Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#cname-functionality-at-the-apex Some registrars, like DNSimple, ...

alpheus

525

asked Aug 1, 2014 at 16:04

23 votes

5 answers

22k views

How Can I Encourage Google to Read New robots.txt File?

I just updated my robots.txt file on a new site; Google Webmaster Tools reports it read my robots.txt 10 minutes before my last update. Is there any way I can encourage Google to re-read my robots....

qxotk

1,434

asked Aug 18, 2010 at 18:09

21 votes

5 answers

16k views

NO_PUBKEY error in google cloud debian packages update

I have a couple of Google Clouds compute instances (US, Germany, Australia) While doing apt-get update today I get: > Get:10 http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt > google-cloud-packages-...

BxlSofty

753

asked Mar 9, 2019 at 10:23

20 votes

1 answer

28k views

How did Google acquire 8.8.8.8? [closed]

The IP addressed 8.8.8.8 (in addition to 8.8.4.4) is now used for Google's DNS server. How did they obtain this IP? Specifically, what has to happen for an IP to be routed to a different location.

Tom Marthenal

2,136

asked Oct 8, 2011 at 2:12

17 votes

4 answers

23k views

How does Google do DNS Geo Location request routing?

I'm wondering who is doing DNS geo location for google.com? By request geo location I mean detecting the location of the user, calculating the nearest server farm to his location, and then routing the ...

Maxim Veksler

2,735

asked Jul 18, 2010 at 13:46

16 votes

2 answers

6k views

Google SPDY - Has anyone used it on Apache?

Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Google SPDY on Apache? http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/ I run a couple of web servers and am interested to know if there have been any issues ...

Luke McCallum

753

asked Jan 27, 2012 at 1:39

16 votes

1 answer

20k views

How to determine if google public stun server is alive or usable? [closed]

I have seen a lot of of WebRTC client libraries using public STUN server like below: "stun.l.google.com:19302", "stun1.l.google.com:19302", "stun2.l.google.com:19302", ...

forestclown

945

asked Jul 22, 2015 at 3:19

15 votes

5 answers

9k views

Open Source alternative to "Google Appliance" for intranet search? [closed]

Are there any alternative open source solutions (with a web console)?

Martin K.

750

asked Jul 14, 2009 at 9:25

13 votes

4 answers

43k views

Different nginx rules based on referrer

I'm using WordPress with WP Super Cache. I want visitors who come from Google (That inlcudes all country specific referrers like google.co.in, google.co.uk and etc.) to see uncached contents. There ...

juana

asked Sep 2, 2010 at 11:32

11 votes

6 answers

5k views

When Google DNS (or Open DNS) is a good fit [closed]

What situations are you thinking are good candidates for a service like this? I have been concerned about our ISP's DNS - they are redirecting to advertising pages, and showing other signs of ...

aSkywalker

555

asked Dec 4, 2009 at 0:30

11 votes

1 answer

17k views

Why is Google rejecting mails forwarded from my Postfix server?

I've set up Postfix and created an alias that maps to a gmail account. When I mail from one of my own (google mail) accounts, it goes through, but if someone from the outside mails me, Google won't ...

troelskn

229

asked Aug 20, 2013 at 12:00

10 votes

3 answers

3k views

Location of Google servers [closed]

I was wondering where the Google servers reside and how their DNS lookup work. I'm located in Germany right now. If I'm calling google.de (German Google page) is the server located in Germany for all ...

cherrun

749

asked Mar 16, 2012 at 10:04

9 votes

2 answers

9k views

Google Dynamic DNS Wildcard Subdomains

I can't get Google's Dynamic DNS API to work for a wildcard domain. I can get defined subdomains to update their IP just fine but I always get nohost when i attempt to update the wildcard's IP. This ...

iambriansreed

339

asked Feb 20, 2015 at 6:15

9 votes

2 answers

13k views

What is the default password in Google Developers Console?

[How to change password in Google Developers Console?] I know this should be a very stupid question related Google Developers Console, but I just wasted three hours in it and no luck in google search ...

Itachi

201

asked Nov 13, 2015 at 2:43

9 votes

3 answers

22k views

How do large companies backup their data?

How do companies who handle large amounts of data, for example Google or Facebook, backup everything? According to this Google platform article on Wikipedia, Google has an estimated 450,000+ servers ...

Olivier Lalonde

753

asked Nov 18, 2010 at 0:34

9 votes

2 answers

8k views

Do CNAME DNS entries affect SEO?

I am setting up a website for a client that I will be hosting and maintaining, and I am trying to determine what will be the most pain free setup. My thought is to do the following: Set up the ...

Chris

asked Feb 26, 2010 at 19:40

8 votes

1 answer

616 views

How to deal with Microsoft and Google agressive spam policies?

Introduction: I have run my own mail server for more than 10 years, and I never had any problem with Gmail, so far. But I needed to complain regularly (like every year) to Hotmail, because they were ...

Stopi

211

asked Jun 11, 2019 at 5:55

7 votes

5 answers

20k views

What hardware do the Google servers use?

What kind of hardware does Google use? Exclusively Intel processors? Always? Xeons, Duos, or Quads? Intel chipsets? motherboards - Intel, Gigabyte, MSI? What kind and build of RAM? What physical ...

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PoorLuzer

7 votes

3 answers

16k views

Why does Postfix deliver mails locally instead of relaying them to Google Apps?

I get the following error trying to send an email to my Google Apps Email at [email protected] from my Postfix server. to=, relay=local, delay=0.09, delays=0.07/0/0/0.02, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced ...

Ivo Sabev

177

asked Aug 15, 2011 at 17:20

7 votes

8 answers

3k views

How can I tell how often Google crawls my site?

I've started a relatively new website, and I submitted it to google and everything. I use google's webmaster tools as well. I'm wondering how to figure out the frequency of google's spider accessing ...

RobHardgood

asked Jan 23, 2010 at 23:12

7 votes

4 answers

5k views

How do I rate limit google's crawl of my IP block?

I have several sites in a /24 network that all get crawled by google on a pretty regular basis. Normally this is fine. However, when google starts crawling all the sites at the same time, the small ...

Zak

1,032

asked Apr 2, 2010 at 22:32

7 votes

2 answers

21k views

What's the correct way of having a GCP account without a GSuit account?

My organization doesn't use GSuit but we still want to use the Google Cloud Platform. I signed up there with my non-gsuit email address and I have a GCP account I can log in to. There are two issues ...

Pablo Fernandez

7,478

asked Oct 25, 2018 at 9:24

6 votes

11 answers

609 views

Will my URL stay secret if I never link to it?

I have a URL that I would like to share with my friend who needs the information on it, but I do not want the public to see it. The URL refers to an index.html, which is in my public_html and ...

user9474

2,468

asked Oct 11, 2009 at 23:15

6 votes

3 answers

1k views

Adding a hostname with 'www' to TXT entry in nameserver makes website unavailable - why?

One way to verify sites when using Googles webmaster tools is to add a TXT entry to the nameserver, using the hostname and adding the provided text. Accidentally (because I simply didn't know) I ...

Olaf

871

asked Oct 4, 2011 at 16:06

6 votes

7 answers

605 views

google mail send as accounts.. how to block?

An employee of ours set up his gmail account to send emails as [email protected], which was fine, but now he has left the company and we have disabled his company account. He is still able to ...

bobinabottle

579

asked Sep 29, 2009 at 8:51

6 votes

4 answers

13k views

High percentage of lost packets - TCP, ICMP - mtr - Complain to ISP?

Problem I'm having high packet loss, according to mtr, when sending packets over the Internet. Should I complain to my ISP? Story I am reading the OReilly Linux Networking Cookbook and the chapter ...

Kenny Meyer

187

asked Dec 24, 2009 at 21:12

6 votes

2 answers

3k views

Does hosting multiple sites on one server hurt your SEO?

I have a handful of (content unrelated) sites with decent PRs and I'm considering hosting them all on the same server. I've heard that if you do this, internal linking between two seperate domains on ...

MarathonStudios

asked Sep 29, 2010 at 1:10

6 votes

1 answer

3k views

Is GMAIL incorrectly failing SPF?

0365 mail users are encouraged to use include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all in their SPF record. I have followed this guidance. My company's spf record says: v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook....

OzPHB

239

asked Feb 3, 2018 at 3:39

6 votes

2 answers

11k views

Need help setting up Google Cloud Directory Sync with AD using secure LDAP

I wanted to see if anyone else has set up a Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS aka GADS) with their Active Directory over secure LDAP (LDAPS). We've been syncing over port 389 and I'd like to encrypt ...

Mike

389

asked May 27, 2017 at 18:44

6 votes

1 answer

35k views

Does Google provide hosting servers means like vps or dedicated servers? [closed]

I want to make it sure does google provide hosting servers like virtual private servers or dedicated besides free hosting that is available from sites.google.com Does google have something like ...

Abhinav

763

asked Aug 11, 2012 at 15:09

6 votes

1 answer

2k views

How to "bounce" or proxy XMPP accounts?

I think I'm looking for an XMPP bouncer. But XMPP federation is a confusing thing for someone who's never dug into it before, so I'm having trouble evaluating solutions or even searching for the right ...

Ian Greenleaf Young

649

asked Jan 30, 2015 at 23:45

6 votes

1 answer

1k views

DNS issues on Google compute engine

I'm experiencing some interesting network issues, which I can reproduce and work around, although not explain - therefore I ask you! :) I have a setup with two servers, both located in Google's ...

sqren

249

asked Feb 26, 2013 at 11:31

5 votes

3 answers

4k views

Why is ping to Google servers and Google DNS so low?

I noticed that ping to Google DNS and to google.com from Serbia is about 15ms, but google servers are located in California! http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=173.194.39.110 My dedicated server is ...

Luka

375

asked Sep 2, 2012 at 14:51

5 votes

5 answers

1k views

How do companies know they've been hacked?

With the news of Google and others getting hacked, I was wondering how companies find out, detect, and/or know they've been hacked in the first place? Sure, if they find a virus/trojan on user's ...

Chad

asked Jan 20, 2010 at 4:27

5 votes

6 answers

1k views

Outsource my email server to Google

I've been looking into setting up my own email server the past couple of weeks and the more I look into it the more I feel that this is an area I do not want to get into. I guess my heart just isn't ...

Luke

3,826

asked Jun 3, 2009 at 11:54

5 votes

3 answers

4k views

PTR OK, SPF, DKIM passed but email messages are marked as Spam by Google?

# host 1.2.3.4 4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.domain.vn. # dig +short txt domain.vn "v=spf1 a mx ptr -all" # dig +short txt mail.domain.vn "v=spf1 a -all" Here's an email header that ...

quanta

51.6k

asked May 22, 2012 at 4:42

5 votes

7 answers

29k views

Adding an HTTP request header with Squid

I want to permit my users to login to Google apps only for my domain. I found a solution by adding the HTTP header X-GoogApps-Allowed-Domains as described in this Google help page. I use Squid, but ...

boblin

151

asked Mar 7, 2012 at 9:09

5 votes

1 answer

198 views

Searching two sites at once using Google? [closed]

How can I limit a Google search to two sites at once? I can search Serverfault by doing site:serverfault.com windows xp, but I can't seem to figure out how to include another site in my search. ...

Andy Mikula

205

asked Jul 3, 2009 at 23:01

5 votes

3 answers

234 views

What is the best way to move site to new domain without losing google page rank

I just bought new domain for my web page. Is it good to use php redirection to the new domain and what are the exact headers that I must send to google bot to just renew the address and keep the page ...

T1000

155

asked Mar 26, 2010 at 23:06

5 votes

2 answers

3k views

Why does spf fail in DMARC report from Google?

I recently received a DMARC report from Google alerting me of a few SPF failures with mail originating from IP addresses belonging to Amazon SES. A sample record is as follows (I have replaced our ...

Leo Galleguillos

177

asked Nov 8, 2021 at 18:35

5 votes

1 answer

717 views

Trouble with Google Apps Custom Domain SSL

I'm currently inside the 30-day free trial for Google Apps for business (billing set up, so will start non-free trial soon). I'm attempting to set up SSL for a custom domain for a Google App Engine ...

unwitting

180

asked Jul 10, 2013 at 11:09

5 votes

4 answers

11k views

Google SMTP Connection Timeout

How do I find out why Gmail is seemingly refusing connections from my specific IP range? I'm getting a "Connection timeout" error when attempting to send email through smtp.gmail.com using the email ...

Cerin

3,620

asked Dec 23, 2011 at 22:04

5 votes

2 answers

2k views

Does Android version 2.2 locally encrypt Activesync messages?

I am a sysadmin for company X. They are interested in allowing ActiveSync access to devices that support local offline encryption of the downloaded attachments and email data. Considering how the ...

makerofthings7

8,931

asked Nov 19, 2010 at 0:17

5 votes

1 answer

593 views

Working around Gmail mailing-list "feature."

We're using Google Apps for our domain's e-mail via IMAP. Whenever mail is sent to a mailing list, copies of the original mail are not received in inboxes. According to Google, this is a "feature." ...

Paul J. Lucas

191

asked Mar 18, 2010 at 22:03

4 votes

7 answers

520 views

What's the benefit of using "containers" in the datacenter as opposite to regular installation

I have just seen this video: Google container data center tour What is not quite clear to me is, what's the benefit from placing the servers inside containers?

OscarRyz

384

asked Aug 14, 2009 at 21:11

4 votes

3 answers

462 views

How often does Google's web spiders crawl the web?

Just a few hours after having made some changes in the HTML of my site, I found that Google had updated its search result against my website. The Internet is so huge, how did the Google crawler do ...

Lenik

802

asked Dec 30, 2009 at 4:48

4 votes

3 answers

11k views

Host my own email in a VPS and stop using gmail, which options do I have?

I'm planning to stop using some google services (like gmail for personal email, still be using for services like google code though). I'm not too paranoid, I know every service in the net is a threat ...

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS

285

asked Sep 15, 2010 at 15:25

4 votes

3 answers

1k views

Does google's web crawler download binary files?

My Google-fu is failing me right now. I'm trying to figure out whether Google's web crawler downloads non-image binary files when it spiders sites. I know it downloads (and indexes) images and PDFs, ...

jessica

143

asked Apr 27, 2012 at 21:00

4 votes

2 answers

711 views

Google network architecture

I am aware that this question might be closed as "not a real question", "subjective" or even "argumentative". If this is a mistake, I am sorry. I am not good at all at networking but I'm trying to ...

Andrei Rînea

310

asked May 6, 2011 at 21:11

4 votes

2 answers

2k views

Why can't I whois '.google' domains?

I know of only two domains under the TLD google (owned by Google, obviously): nic.google lers.google However, neither of these give valid output when used with whois: $ whois nic.google No whois ...

IQAndreas

1,550

asked Aug 6, 2015 at 15:57

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