this seems authenticate this time but never never never put IPs in hosts file in such a way
tomorrow i can say, make
google faster by pointing it to say 11.22.33.44 and which wud be actually my own IP and then i can make page look completely like google and steal ur cookies or even password.
merc is totally new user and its infact his first post. so we dont know him but looks authenticate. although reverse lookup seems to be pointing to google, but if u dont take care, then next time u can send ur password to anyone.
my id is not new.. its infact 3yrs old id, which i created when i had issues with my first internet connection with Sify. Well you are right about the first post.
and as you mentioned, we should never put any ipaddresses give by a stranger with out Crosschecking. use a site like whois.net and verify the authenticity of the ip addresses before using them. and those ip addresses are definately Not some google test servers. BSNL
dns servers already started resolving google sites to those ipaddresses. You can try using
ns2.bsnl.in - 218.248.240.79
ns3.bsnl.in - 218.248.240.208
as dns servers.
I have a big bunch of DNS servers list of different ISPs, if anybody is interested, i can post them