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15 questions linked to/from DNS not resolving on Mac OS X
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DNS resolution temporarily failing [duplicate]
Macbook air mid-2012 w/ Mountain Lion.
Whenever I wakeup from a long sleep and also on some random moments when it's on, i get DNS resolution failures for every server, with nslookup saying ;; ...
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How do I flush the DNS cache on a OS X 10.6 machine?
Trying to flush the local DNS cache. How is this done on Snow Leopard?
Using System Preferences and using the terminal?
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Why will my Mac only load Google and Facebook?
I'm running into this really strange problem on my 2013 iMac at home (running Mavericks): the internet will work for a while, then at some point it will stop being able to load any websites except for ...
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The server returned the error: The server “imap.gmail.com” cannot be contacted on port 993
My Mac Mail has just started going on the fritz.
I have a gmail account linked to mail and also a hotmail account. Both have warning signs and I cannot send or receive mail. They were both fine ...
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Cannot ping localhost: "unknown host" on Mac OS X El Captain
I am trying to resolve localhost which right now is "not found"
if I ping localhost - I am getting
ping: cannot resolve localhost: Unknown host
I have made sure that the /etc/hosts file has the ...
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Can't use machine name to login using SSH anymore on Yosemite, how to fix?
from yesterday I have noticed that I can't connect via SSH to my OS X's SSH server anymore using the following command:
User-MBP:~ user$ ssh user@user-mbp
user is the user on the server, user-mbp is ...
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DNS doesn't work properly in OS X Yosemite
There is a problem with resolving DNS in my OS X Yosemite.
Safari doesn't load web sites, ping says "unknown host" to google.com. DNS servers set to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
dig google.com
Gets ...
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DNS resolution broken in El Capitan with Thunderbolt Ethernet Adapter on Offline network
After upgrading to El Capitan how do I enable DNS resolution on an offline, internal computer network?
Before upgrading to El Capitan I could connect to my internal network, set my DNS and search ...
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DHCP and DNS fail to work in Mac OS X 10.8.2, still work in recovery mode
I've been most unfortunate to see my mid-2012 Macbook Air 11" running Mac OS X 10.8.2 stop properly receiving DHCP leases AND resolving DNS names to IPs.
I know, there is 10.8.5, and Mavericks that ...
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Only Chrome can access the Internet
Very curious problem - only Chrome can access the Internet, but literally everything else cannot. Confirmed this in Activity Monitor's Network tab (it shows 0 bytes sent/received for literally every ...
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OS X doesn't query local DNS names properly
None of our OS X client machines in our workplace query local DNS names of our servers properly after connecting to VPN. For other client machines – including Linux and Windows – it works properly.
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Losing internet connection 30 seconds after turning on the Mac
I am being connected to the Wi-Fi, but there's no internet connection, it stops working approx 30 seconds after I turn on my iMac. In Windows via Parallels on the same device, the connection is fine. ...
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Domain Name Resolution (DNS) stops working randomly
While browsing and using the web, DNS stops working. Open web-chats like Google Hangouts keep working, but opening new websites, Skype, and others are stuck to "Resolving host name".
This happens ...
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curl not downloading pear.phar on Mac Mojave
i do try to curl -O https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
but all i got is a log raising the time spent:
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
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Mac cannot resolve DNS on WiFi, but works fine on cellular tethering
I have consulted the questions/answers here. But it seems nothing is working.
I can ping 8.8.8.8, but I cannot ping www.google.com.
nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8 and dig @8.8.8.8 www.google.com is ...
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