Google Earth 4.1 Fly To Broken in Australia

Andrew Hallam | | 12 May 2007, 22:12

After upgrading from Google Earth 4.0.something to 4.1.7076.4458 on Ubuntu 7.04, the Fly To address search doesn’t work. I’m assuming this error is particular to Australian users since it returns an error stating:

Unable to perform search Couldn’t resolve host ‘maps.google.au’

Update, 2007-05-18: Just tried a street address search and it worked fine. Thanks for the fix Google.

That should obviously be maps.google.com.au. I searched everywhere obvious to find a likely configuration setting, but alas, not one was found.

Hopefully this value is pulled from Google servers at login (REST style), rather than being baked into compiled code.

Comments [2] »

  1. The problem is that if you are in Australia, the Search etc try to use "maps.google.au" which DOES NOT EXIST.

    BUT this does...
    maps.google.com.au

    So I found the ip for maps.google.com.au = 66.249.93.104, and put the following line into my "c:windowssystem32driversetchosts" file...

    66.249.93.104 maps.google.au

    Now the search works! It's a patch job, but it should hold until Google FIX THIS BUG!

    Jonathan — 15 May 2007, 00:12

  2. Jonathan, thanks for the host file hack. Didn't even cross my mind because I was looking for a configuration change.

    Andrew Hallam — 15 May 2007, 03:50

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