[dfc]

Out of curiosity is there a reason why cert-test.sandbox.g.c resolves to so many IPs compared to www.g.c?

  dfc@ronin:~$ host cert-test.sandbox.google.com |grep address |wc
       16      64     894
  dfc@ronin:~$ host www.google.com |grep address |wc
        6      25     262

I wanted to see how the various vendor ssl tests would handle sha256. Everything i tested had no problem, but they all took a little longer than usual because of the number of DNS results.

PS Not that it would matter but unlike other google hosts the cert-test does not have any IPv6 records.

[agl]

I don't think the load balancing is setup as tightly as www.google.com. It doesn't get much traffic after all.