Can a Ping result of "127.0.0.1" be considered as normal?

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Dear all,

Recently my PC acting up. It refused to let me accessing gmail.com and
groups.google.com

I can, however, access www.google.com without any problem.

To find out what happened, I did a "ping" job, on google, as well as
on yahoo, slashdot, kernel.org and microsoft.

For all the sites that I pinged, they returned normal IP address.
However, the result from www.google.com, www.google.com.au, www.google.co.uk
all returned the "127.0.0.1" result !!

I am guessing that perhaps this is the reason why I can't access
gmail, because gmail's full address is googlemail.1.google.com and if
google.com returns 127.0.0.1 (the internal address of all PC), my PC
of course can't locate googlemail.1.google.com !!

But how come when I input www.google.com or www.google.com.au or
www.google.co.uk the browser brings me to the right place ??

Can anyone here help me figure out what is wrong with my computer,
please?

Thank you all !
 
In said:
Recently my PC acting up. It refused to let me accessing gmail.com and
groups.google.com
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You've cross-posted to a mixture of Linux-specific groups and
Windows-specific groups. What OS are you actually running?

[...] gmail's full address is googlemail.1.google.com and if
google.com returns 127.0.0.1 [...], my PC of course can't locate
googlemail.1.google.com !!
Click to expand...

That doesn't follow.

Chris
 
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Dear all,

Recently my PC acting up. It refused to let me accessing gmail.com and
groups.google.com

I can, however, access www.google.com without any problem.

To find out what happened, I did a "ping" job, on google, as well as
on yahoo, slashdot, kernel.org and microsoft.

For all the sites that I pinged, they returned normal IP address.
However, the result from www.google.com, www.google.com.au,
www.google.co.uk all returned the "127.0.0.1" result !!

I am guessing that perhaps this is the reason why I can't access
gmail, because gmail's full address is googlemail.1.google.com and if
google.com returns 127.0.0.1 (the internal address of all PC), my PC
of course can't locate googlemail.1.google.com !!

But how come when I input www.google.com or www.google.com.au or
www.google.co.uk the browser brings me to the right place ??

Can anyone here help me figure out what is wrong with my computer,
please?
Click to expand...
Sounds like you or someone else has been playing with your hosts file.
 
Chris said:
In said:
Recently my PC acting up. It refused to let me accessing gmail.com and
groups.google.com
Click to expand...

You've cross-posted to a mixture of Linux-specific groups and
Windows-specific groups. What OS are you actually running?

[...] gmail's full address is googlemail.1.google.com and if
google.com returns 127.0.0.1 [...], my PC of course can't locate
googlemail.1.google.com !!
Click to expand...

That doesn't follow.
Click to expand...

Sounds like a Windows user.
 
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