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bobo
Asked: 2012-08-27 23:54:51 +0800 CST

Is this normal that api-verify.recaptcha.net points to google.com?

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A user just emailed me saying he could not complete registration in my website. I just checked and already found out it's the recaptcha that is causing the problem.

I have been using this recaptcha php library and it has been working perfectly for more than 3 years until today: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/php?hl=zh-TW

The recaptcha displays successfully when the registration page loads, but it says Could not open socket when it tries to contact the api-verify.recaptcha.net during captcha verification.

I suspect there's something wrong with api-verify.recaptcha.net, when I ping it, it redirects to www.l.google.com.

Is this normal?

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  1. Best Answer

    Yes, this is normal. ReCaptcha is a Google product, and one of the names of the server that serves it, is indeed, www.l.google.com... and here's a screenshot nslookup from my machine (below) for you to look at.

    nslookup/ping results

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