[185725] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google Captcha on web searches
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Slabbert)
Tue Nov 10 12:47:45 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:47:41 -0800
From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
To: Joseph Jenkins <joe@breathe-underwater.com>
In-Reply-To: <777D03E8-6030-41A9-A59B-BF03FE33F780@breathe-underwater.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue 2015-Nov-10 09:28:09 -0800, Joseph Jenkins <joe@breathe-underwater.c=
om> wrote:
>We started getting a Google Captcha for our web searches this morning. Doe=
s anyone have contact info for Google so that I can contact them and figure=
out where the traffic is coming from on my side or what service it is goin=
g to so that I can track down the users?
Out of curiosity: Is this happening with IPv6-capable hosts? We've had=20
instances where Google flags our dual stack hosts and pops up Captcha's=20
like you're reporting when connecting via v6, but where we've never had=20
problems accessing their services from the same host(s) over v4. Flipping=
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the affected host's browser over to using v4 using a browser extension=20
let's them access Google services again.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/86640?hl=3Den is too=20
generic/vague to give any specifics of why Google decided the user's v6 IP=
=20
is put on the nasty list (or even whether it's their IP specifically or=20
something larger like a /64).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joe Jenkins
>909.636.2097
>
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