Unfortunately seems to be US-only:
> The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed
thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.
> The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed
thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.
The dns magic underneath encrypted.google.com, www.google.com and www.google.com.au shows that doesn't matter - all three are "in Australia" (at the very least, within 21ms) from where I am (Sydney):
[Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com.au
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.87
traceroute to www-cctld.l.google.com (74.125.237.87), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 3.558 ms 1.766 ms 1.582 ms
…
8 syd01s06-in-f23.1e100.net (74.125.237.87) 20.318 ms 20.009 ms 20.457 ms
[Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.81
traceroute to www.l.google.com (74.125.237.81), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.962 ms 3.753 ms 1.618 ms
…
9 syd01s06-in-f17.1e100.net (74.125.237.81) 19.927 ms 20.220 ms 20.404 ms
[Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute encrypted.google.com
traceroute: Warning: encrypted.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.100
traceroute to www3.l.google.com (74.125.237.100), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 17.068 ms 8.808 ms 1.609 ms
…
8 syd01s12-in-f4.1e100.net (74.125.237.100) 21.235 ms 20.064 ms 19.237 ms