hookamenace Posted April 22, 2012 Posted April 22, 2012 Hi, I have a Macbookpro with OS X 10.6.8. For the past 2 months I have had internet browsing issues where a webpage would show cannot open because "Safari cannot find the server". I would wait for about a minute and refresh and the webpage would be there no problems. It is doing the same thing on firefox as well. Everything is up to date for software. The only thing I can think of was that I installed windows on my MAC and that I moved from california to kansas (thought I go back and forth all the time with no problems). Also, my brother who has a Mac does not have this problem. Last thing, when I am on hulu, it doesn't have that problem. Instead it just shows something about not being able to play the video and to clear my cache, which of course I do and nothing happens. If anyone has any ideas that would be great, THANKS. Quote
kernel Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 (edited) Could be an issue with the DNS address your computer is using, the DNS server is so far away it cannot translate the website name you typed into the URL bar to the sites ip address in time. DNS looks like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]2136[/ATTACH] Your computer sends the website name to the DNS server which looks up the ip address for the site and sends the address to you which the browser then sends to the websites server, in the pictures case howstuffworks.com, the server then sends a copy of the site to view in your web browser. Your DNS server being so far away is causing the web browser to time out and display the "Safari cannot find the server". Changing your DNS server would stop this from happening. Google's namebench software will find the one that is the fastest for your particular location. https://code.google.com/p/namebench/ P.S. I am sorry for double posting but the post I posted above would not let me edit. So if a forum moderator could delete the above post I made I would appreciate it. Thanks. Edited January 9, 2014 by kernel Quote
KenB Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Post deleted as requested :) There is a 20 minute window in which to edit - this is there in an attempt to stop spammers coming back and adding links in their posts. This thread is from April 2012 - again I doubt that the original poster would still need a reply. Quote There is an email going around offering processed pork - gelatin - and salt in a can ......this is simply SPAM !! MiniToolBoxNetwork TestWireless Test
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