A couple of years ago, we switched mail for our domains to Google instead of hosting it ourselves. Using Google Mail for Domains, we were able to easily manage email for over 25 users scattered all over the world, without having to deal with POP3 servers, and explaining to people how to configure their mail clients. Everyone is familiar with Gmail, and the web interface is second to none.

We switched several of our domains over. The configuration was a bit tricky, as Google provides several alternate servers, and offers different MX priorities for each server.

Back in 2007, when we migrated, the official Google server configuration looked like this:

icrontic.com. MX (10) aspmx.l.google.com.
icrontic.com. MX (20) alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
icrontic.com. MX (20) alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
icrontic.com. MX (30) aspmx2.googlemail.com.
icrontic.com. MX (30) aspmx3.googlemail.com.
icrontic.com. MX (30) aspmx4.googlemail.com.
icrontic.com. MX (30) aspmx5.googlemail.com.

And that was that. Then, a few months back, there was a problem…
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In both 2004 and 2005, it was revealed that DNS, the system that maps intelligible names to the internet’s millions of IP addresses, was susceptible to wacky hijinks. The discovery was made possible by a man named Dan Kaminsky who, doped up on percocet for a shattered elbow, came to understand a simple hack with devastating consequences.

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