On 9/16/13, Randy Kramer <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 14 September 2013 8:15:18 pm Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 9/15/13, Randy Kramer <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ... email intermittent on 36-48hr boundary ...
>> I in recent days discovered something possibly of note for you, but >> probably not - I've been using mail.google.com in firefox, and would >> swap between two different computers in my house, which would work, >> then one day it stopped working, as in, I'd use email on one computer, >> then email would not work on the other computer. I was proxying >> through a vpn though, to another computer on a different external IP >> address, and after some time I figured this out. It seems google uses >> some server cookie binding client login to ip address (which in >> hindsight is a sensible security choice), and that if I had have >> logged out of gmail on first IP address/pc, then logged in on >> laternate ip/pc, then google probably would have been ok with that. > > Interesting, I'll have to think about that. > > I did note (from your next email) your comment about the possibility of my > WAN > address being changed every 36 to 48 hours (due to expiration of the DHCP > lease), but the WAN connection (to Earthlink) is via PPPoE. (And I'm not > aware that PPPoE changes the address--I will watch that though, if I notice > the problem, I'll check and see if the WAN IP address has changed.) Here is a quick way to check the particular data point that I believe could be triggering the google login issue (or rather, non-response, which is what I was getting when google thought I guess a hacker was trying to access my account from a completely new ip address, without a logout/login - my hypothesis anyway): http://checkmyip.com/ They key is, what is the public-facing ip address, notwithstanding what eg ifconfig shows you for your ptp link. Good luck Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnstm3rn-y4enmkfvndgjdecuficyyg1gnzbx4m-khv3...@mail.gmail.com
