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Re: Google Captcha on web searches


From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:09:24 +0300

Hi Chris,

Yeah I probably should worded that differently not 'open dns services',
sorry about that. In my case there is no proxy/vpn service (i know they
can do that), just DNS changes. For some reason that cause
false-positive detection in google from time to time.

On 11/11/2015 01:43, Chris Murray wrote:
Hi Nikolay,

The "popular open dns services" you refer to appear to be Proxy/VPN
services that also provide DNS to get around region blocking. These
services proxy and/or NAT users behind a single IP address to make it
look like you are coming from a different country.

I may be biased, but when I think of popular open DNS services I think
of OpenDNS or Google DNS, and you should *never* see a captcha as a
result of using OpenDNS. Disclaimer: I work for OpenDNS, and while I
can't speak to Google DNS, I have never heard of this behaviour with
their service either.

Just wanted to clarify.
- Chris

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
When I've started using DNS from unotelly service, captcha starts
appears from time to time. If I change DNS to something else, catcha
gone immediately.

Its probably related to DNS geo-locating to decide what records serve to
client

On 10/11/2015 23:00, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
You may get captcha if you are using popular open dns services. At least
this is what I've seen.


pardon, what?

On 10/11/2015 20:28, Joseph Jenkins wrote:
We started getting a Google Captcha for our web searches this morning. Does 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 going 
to so that I can track down the users?

Thanks,

Joe Jenkins
909.636.2097



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