Why can't we log into our google accounts from work?
March 18, 2008 10:59 AM Subscribe
Why can't I get to the Google login page?
From work we can't get to gmail.com or the Google Analytics Sign up page, for instance. If I use Anonymizer, I'm able to get in just fine, and because my cookie is set then afterwords it works fine, but if anybody else wants to get to Google from their computers we get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".
We do have a spam-blocking firewall. Could that be it?
From work we can't get to gmail.com or the Google Analytics Sign up page, for instance. If I use Anonymizer, I'm able to get in just fine, and because my cookie is set then afterwords it works fine, but if anybody else wants to get to Google from their computers we get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".
We do have a spam-blocking firewall. Could that be it?
Best answer: or, you work somewhere where they block webmail sites for security reasons (financial, government, legal, etc)
posted by Oktober at 11:25 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by Oktober at 11:25 AM on March 18, 2008
googlemail.com is an alias for gmail that you could also try.
posted by jjb at 11:31 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by jjb at 11:31 AM on March 18, 2008
Response by poster: I can get to GOOGLE, which is to say, the search engine. But I can't get to the login servers.
"mail.google.com" redirects to "googlemail.l.google.com" at "72.14.223.83". I can't get any of the three up.
We don't block webmail sites, no, though we block youtube. I'm willing to believe it's related, and we're on the phone with our firewall provider.
posted by taumeson at 11:31 AM on March 18, 2008
"mail.google.com" redirects to "googlemail.l.google.com" at "72.14.223.83". I can't get any of the three up.
We don't block webmail sites, no, though we block youtube. I'm willing to believe it's related, and we're on the phone with our firewall provider.
posted by taumeson at 11:31 AM on March 18, 2008
Response by poster: googlemail.com doesn't work, neither does www.google.com/accounts.
Here's something interesting. When I try to get to www.google.com/accounts from within firefox, the status bar switches back and forth between "connecting to www.google.com" and "connected to www.google.com" for half a dozen times before it closes the connection:
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
posted by taumeson at 11:35 AM on March 18, 2008
Here's something interesting. When I try to get to www.google.com/accounts from within firefox, the status bar switches back and forth between "connecting to www.google.com" and "connected to www.google.com" for half a dozen times before it closes the connection:
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
posted by taumeson at 11:35 AM on March 18, 2008
Best answer: "Google SSL Pages" was turned off in the intrusion countermeasures of our firewall. What the hell?
posted by taumeson at 11:59 AM on March 18, 2008
posted by taumeson at 11:59 AM on March 18, 2008
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http://64.233.167.99/
http://72.14.207.99/
What about country specific domain, like http://www.google.ca/ or http://www.google.co.uk/.
Perhaps there's a DNS issue.
posted by jjb at 11:24 AM on March 18, 2008