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Severe 10.5.2 DNS problems
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So the other day at the office I noticed that opening web pages suddenly took so long. I switched over to FF and it felt exactly the same. I then noticed that opening up ssh connections to remote machines took forever too. Back at home on my wireless network I had no troubles at all. The next day at work I swapped Ethernet cables, the switch, etc. and nothing changed.
I then figured it might be the DNS since that is (apart from the interface) the only difference between my office and home network connection. So I replace the two DNS entries I get from our DNS server here at work with two entries from OpenDNS.com: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220. Bam, problem gone.
So what's the deal with these DNS troubles? Before 10.5.2 I had no such problems at all. And now all of the sudden and for no obvious reason Leopard doesn't want to play nice with the DNS server anymore? Does this sound familiar to anyone here?
In principle the problem is solved, but the solution isn't especially nice. OS X should work with the DNS server the DHCP server points to w/o the user manually entering another service. And of course regardless if the workaround works or not, I'd like to know what's going on. Any ideas?
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Maybe your dns cache got messed up. Try flushing it.
In Terminal, type 'dscacheutil -flushcache' then press Enter. No quotes on the commands.
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I forget to mention that. That was actually the very first thing I tried once I noticed that it was system-wide and not just Safari. Unfortunately no dice.
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Check on another machine at work. Maybe there's something wrong with the DNS servers your company is using and not your settings on your machine.
Steve
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I was wondering about that too. But nobody else was having these issues. So I figured out it must be my MBP.
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Well, I had exact prob. here. After a call to my ISP they changed my DNS and the problem was solved, so I feel like there may be a incompatibility between the DNS server software and OS X 10.5.2!
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M.Zografski
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DNS server quirks + Leopard DNS resolution quirks perhaps. OpenDNS must be good enough to overcome whatever issue Leopard has internally.
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OpenDNS is indeed awesome.
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Originally Posted by TINITUS 
Well, I had exact prob. here. After a call to my ISP they changed my DNS and the problem was solved, so I feel like there may be a incompatibility between the DNS server software and OS X 10.5.2!
Regards.
M.Zografski
No incompatibility; DNS servers just take the text of the URL and look up the appropriate Internet IP to go with it. DNS is so standard that any browser can use it. No, I think this is just an ISP issue that involved (oops!) forgetting to get all the customers updated with new DNS server addresses in a timely manner. I've had it happen to me with SWB/AT&T, and that's all it was.
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