Timeline for iCloud Services (iMessages/FaceTime/Continuity) Very Broken on my Mac
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| Jan 13, 2015 at 18:02 | comment | added | CamHenlin | I have some good but frustrating news. iMessages, Continuity, and FaceTime now working again on this computer on its own, not sure why, but beginning to suspect this was something on Apple's end and some sort of blacklist on this computer, possibly caused by running a VM? The last thing that I tried was changing the location and switching to a wired ethernet connection, which I left it on the rest of the evening, although I did did a few hours of (unrelated) work on the computer without iCloud services working. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 7:47 | comment | added | nelson | Hi,@CamHenlin, I propose to revert the hosts file to the default settings temporary, if the issue is resolved and that we can at least be able to think this issue related with hosts file | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 7:47 | comment | added | athena |
→ CamHenlin: Please follow the problems separation method suggested by Tetsujin. Once done, shut down your VM, make a uniq connection (either Ethernet or Wi-Fi, but not both or random), test and report.
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| Jan 13, 2015 at 7:41 | comment | added | CamHenlin | Also yes @Tetsujin I kind of had the same gut feeling which was why I mentioned it myself and did spend some time messing around with that. Annoyingly, the same VM has no issues on other computers (a few Ubuntu 14.04-powered NUCs running VM Workstation 11) and playing around with iCloud configuration within the VM has no effect on the host apparently. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 7:37 | comment | added | CamHenlin | Hi @nelson wondering if you could point out what I might look for in the hosts file? Honestly I do have a modification - my own public IP address mapped to "home" (forwarded at my Airport Extreme to my iMac on certain ports) (an identical mapping present on my MacBook Air which still works). I also run a nonstandard sshd_config so an old OS 9.2.2 PowerBook can ssh in with MacSSH. Neither of these things were problems in the past and both were overwritten by my OS reinstall (which didn't help, so I restored my changed versions). | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 6:43 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Did you sign out of iCloud on both the real & VM OSes? Even de-authorise the VM too. A guess is that 'the cloud' thinks they are one & the same machine as the MAC addresses will match & has chosen the 'wrong' one to get friendly with. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 2:09 | comment | added | nelson | Make sure the date, time, and time zone are set correctly and check /etc/hosts file | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 0:55 | comment | added | CamHenlin | Just tried plugged in with a physical ethernet cable on the new location, @danielAzuelos, still no dice | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 0:28 | comment | added | CamHenlin | Yeah I stated that other user accounts don't work either sorry | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:44 | comment | added | nelson | @CamHenlin, create another account(OS X account, not iCloud account) and try the iCloud service | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:37 | comment | added | CamHenlin | WiFi, unfortunately I'm messing with it now over Remote Desktop so I can't physically plug in an ethernet cable, but I have the gut feeling it will have the same issue, can confirm shortly | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:34 | comment | added | athena |
You don't have to reboot when creating or switching locations. Just select it from the menu. Is this new location on Ethernet or Wi-Fi?
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:31 | comment | added | CamHenlin | Yeah, I don't actually think I have a DNS issue. Based on your mention of the Automatic location, I created a new location, then rebooted, didn't seem to help. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:22 | comment | added | athena |
I never saw such a problem except on cases were the location is configured to Automatic and the Mac spent its time switching between Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Changing the DNS server to a further one is a solution if your DNS server is a real failure. This cannot fix a supposed failing DNS client.
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:13 | comment | added | CamHenlin | I read about Yosemite having problems with resolving DNS due to its new mDNSresolver so I swapped my ISP DNS with the Google ones to see if it helped. I listed it here so it wouldn't be suggested again :) | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:11 | comment | added | athena | Why did you change your DNS servers to use the Google ones? Are these Google DNS servers particularly near from you? | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 23:01 | comment | added | CamHenlin | Clarified, added paragraph at end about network, and I'm pretty sure I know what's in ~/Library/Preferences/ and ~/Library/Messages/ and feel comfortable deleting them, thanks | |
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