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really crazy DNS problem, or Macs can't see things and needs glasses
really crazy DNS problem, or Macs can't see things and needs glasses
Networking 2 posts
Sep 6, 2002 — Sep 15, 2002
OK, I feel really stupid but I need some suggestions.
I have 3 computers in my office, a Tibook and G3 running OS X 10.2, and a windows machine on NT 4.
All three of these machines are plugged into the same 10b-t hub.
They are all set up the same way, using DHCP, with the same DNS servers and domains.
Now, my macs cannot get out to certain sites, like, oh www.mac.com, but my PC can. I cannot for the life of me think of anything to cause this. If I traceroute to www.mac.com on my macs, it dies right at the final hop. On my pc, at the same time, from the same network connection, on the same hub, with the same settings, hits it fine.
ANY ideas at all? This is really annoying. I can't even get to Software update from my macs. I can pull stuff off an iDisk on my PC but not my macs. Argh.
I have 3 computers in my office, a Tibook and G3 running OS X 10.2, and a windows machine on NT 4.
All three of these machines are plugged into the same 10b-t hub.
They are all set up the same way, using DHCP, with the same DNS servers and domains.
Now, my macs cannot get out to certain sites, like, oh www.mac.com, but my PC can. I cannot for the life of me think of anything to cause this. If I traceroute to www.mac.com on my macs, it dies right at the final hop. On my pc, at the same time, from the same network connection, on the same hub, with the same settings, hits it fine.
ANY ideas at all? This is really annoying. I can't even get to Software update from my macs. I can pull stuff off an iDisk on my PC but not my macs. Argh.
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All three of these machines are plugged into the same 10b-t hub. They are all set up the same way, using DHCP, with the same DNS servers and domains. |
I had a similar situation: Two Mac's connected to the same 10baseT hub (using DHCP). Cable modem plugged into the uplink port of the hub. One Mac could see and do anything on the net, but the other had only limited use (and would sometimes crash when trying to access the net). Replaced the hub with a SOHOware Broadband Router/Switch and those problems went away (plus access to the net is now a lot speedier for both Macs).