On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:10:15 -0700 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:45:23 -0500 > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > walt wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 02:11:48 +0000 (UTC) > > > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>> Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing > > >>> login to their email servers. Just in the last day or two, > > >>> literally. > > >> I'm not seeing that with either of my gmail accounts. Same login > > >> times as always (1-2 seconds) on both IMAP and SMTP servers. > > > That info amazes me, but gives me even more evidence for a > > > conspiracy theory :) My ISP (att.com) may be responsible for this > > > new delay. > > > > > > att is involved with the ongoing net-neutrality battles here in > > > the US with netflix et alia, so why not add yet another > > > fuzz-factor to the mix. > > > > > > I hope my email still works when I wake up tomorrow morning... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Makes me wonder. Sometimes when I go to facebook, it doesn't come > > up on first or second try. I've seen that with other sites as well. > > Hmmmmm. When I get a error, it is instant. It seems to be so > > instant that it doesn't even have time to do a DNS lookup much less > > hit the website. > > > > By the way, I use AT&T too. DSL after many years of dial-up. > > I just tried entering the number of the beast ;) 8.8.8.8 > into /etc/resolv.conf and that reduced my waiting time from 120 > seconds to 30 seconds (actual measurement by stopwatch).
Nope. Wrong. I just changed my resolv.conf back to the IP address of the router that ATT forced me to "upgrade" to and the delay is *gone*. The delay I was seeing was apparently caused by something very local to me, and suddenly vanished after two days. The interwebz is a scary place :(
