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Snow Leopard keeps dropping DNS
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<blockquote data-quote="lsusparks" data-source="post: 904199" data-attributes="member: 120131"><p>I noticed this same exact problem on my MacPro yesterday. It was never an issue before 10.6. Changing the ttl on the DNS server fixed it for me (not much help if you don't have access to do that).</p><p></p><p>Here's the deal - one of our networks at work had ttl's of 5256000 seconds. I had trouble browsing to web servers on that network. Most other addresses worked fine, but had much lower ttl's. I asked our DNS administrator to adjust the ttl on one problem address down to 604800 and suddenly the problem is gone (for that one address). Then I had him change all records to be no more than 604800 (an arbitrary number on my part, 7 days vs 60 before). It seems totally fixed.</p><p></p><p>If you're seeing this on a home network, check if your router is doing dns caching or anything like that. If possible adjust the ttl or turn off the DNS caching and see if that fixes it. </p><p></p><p>To check if maybe this is your problem, use Network Utility to lookup the name. You'll see a line like this:</p><p>myserver.me.com 43200 IN A 10.10.10.15</p><p>That 43200 is the ttl (time to live, in seconds). I know from experience that 5256000 is too high an causes problems in SL, and that 604800 does work. Where exactly it breaks I'm not sure.</p><p></p><p>I'm interested to hear if this fixes anyone else's problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lsusparks, post: 904199, member: 120131"] I noticed this same exact problem on my MacPro yesterday. It was never an issue before 10.6. Changing the ttl on the DNS server fixed it for me (not much help if you don't have access to do that). Here's the deal - one of our networks at work had ttl's of 5256000 seconds. I had trouble browsing to web servers on that network. Most other addresses worked fine, but had much lower ttl's. I asked our DNS administrator to adjust the ttl on one problem address down to 604800 and suddenly the problem is gone (for that one address). Then I had him change all records to be no more than 604800 (an arbitrary number on my part, 7 days vs 60 before). It seems totally fixed. If you're seeing this on a home network, check if your router is doing dns caching or anything like that. If possible adjust the ttl or turn off the DNS caching and see if that fixes it. To check if maybe this is your problem, use Network Utility to lookup the name. You'll see a line like this: myserver.me.com 43200 IN A 10.10.10.15 That 43200 is the ttl (time to live, in seconds). I know from experience that 5256000 is too high an causes problems in SL, and that 604800 does work. Where exactly it breaks I'm not sure. I'm interested to hear if this fixes anyone else's problems. [/QUOTE]
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