FYI: Mac OS X, Safari (et al), and DNS timeouts

[Simon Hobson]

Jim Reid wrote:

>     Simon> A couple of weeks ago I set up an internal DNS server (BIND
>     Simon> on a Linux box) on my little home network, and then I
>     Simon> started getting "this site could not be reached" type
>     Simon> errors from Safari - you know, the ones where it almost
>     Simon> always works second time around. After a bit of packet
>     Simon> sniffing, and googling it seems that this is a known
>     Simon> problem engineered into OS X by Apple !
>
>This does not occur in the current release of MacOSX. Apple even
>mentioned in the update to 10.3.7 that the release fixed this
>problem. Upgrade. FWIW, the problem seems to have been in Apple's
>resolver library (or equivalent), not Safari. Other browsers had
>similar behaviour until the OS was updated.

Yes, I should have mentioned both these, actually I did mention 
10.3.7. I haven't had the opportunity to see if 10.3.7 does cure the 
problem since my laptop runs 10.2.8 - and at work we have 3 DNS 
servers configured.

Simon

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