On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 05:03:19 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:10:56 -0400, Paul
wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Char Jackson
writes:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:14:53 -0400, wrote:
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on w10 PC:
ping gmail.com worked fine (got IP add for gmail,com = 74.208.232.28)

on XP PC:
ping gmail.com worked too (got IP add for gmail,com = 172.217.15.69))

Cool, DNS works. From a networking perspective, you're golden!

But why did he get different IP addresses?

Google has multiple IP addresses.

And a person in North America gets a different set
than you'd get in the UK.

*******

But I was in same place.

It doesn't matter. Every organization gets to set the rules for how
their domains will resolve. In the simplest case, a request to resolve
www.mydomain.com will always return the same IP because the
authoritative DNS system only contains a single A record for that
domain.
But things can quickly become more complicated after that. You can trust
Google not to use the simplest DNS configuration so it shouldn't be
surprising that requests for any of their domains will return a range of
results. That doesn't indicate an error of any kind, it's just how they
have their DNS configured. The important part is that your request was
resolved.


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Char Jackson