BFD and Google IP's

[_Gerardo_]

Hi,

I have got an e-mail from BFD that says it blocked the IP 74.125.92.163.

I did a whois search (http://ws.arin.net/whois/) for that IP and all that ip range belongs to Google (74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255 )

The ip was trying to do login to e-mail accounts in the server for one of the hosted domains in my VPS.

It's ok to keep blocking the Google IP's ? because I don't know if it's a normal behavior for a google bot or is something else.

[jason]

Define normal. In most cases Google wouldn't be probing your server looking for email accounts. On the other hand, GMail does provide the ability to access mail from external accounts within the GMail interface. Perhaps you or one of your users set that feature up for an account on your server, later changed a password, and now Google is trying, unsuccessfully, to access that account. After a certain number of failed logins BFD probably picked up on it and blocked the IP.

--Jason