When gmail.google.com didn’t actually go to GMail
The other day, I logged on to my home network and entered gmail.google.com from Firefox. Imagine my surprise when I got a “landing” page with a bunch of URLs, rather than the usual spartan GMail page. One terrifying thought followed the other. Was my machine infected? Was my WiFi router compromised? Maybe the ASDL modem? Worse, how long had it gone unnoticed? Ok, time to take a deep breath and start isolating the problem, I figured. I logged on from an alternate machine and found it worked fine there. I did a nslookup from the command prompt on my machine … Continue reading When gmail.google.com didn’t actually go to GMail