Uh, gee . . . I'm losing it. The excerpt came from the MacOSXHints site. My apologizies.
http://www.macosxhints.com/ Ward Oldham On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 11:32 PM, Ward Oldham wrote: > Hi Lee, > > I'm sure you read the same things that I do, but for everyone's > benefit, the following excerpt was copied from the Macintouch site. > It's gotten its share of attention on MacFixIt too. > > lookupd bug in 10.2.2 causes DNS problems > Symptoms: Internet applications, web browsers being the most obvious, > lose the ability to find host IP addresses resulting in "hostname not > found", or similar errors. Though this error is sometimes legitimate, > it happens on major sites (Yahoo! Google) and it happens sporadically. > Upon further research, I discovered that performing an 'nslookup' on > the same host name from the command returns the correct IP address, > and I am able to navigate to the IP address without problems. This > problem has been traced to the lookupd service used by OSX 10.2.2. > Further documentation on the problem can found int this thread on the > Apple Discussions site. > > Temporary Fix: You can temporarily fix this bug by running the > following command (notice that the following command contains > backticks not single quotes): > > % sudo kill -1 `cat /var/run/lookupd.pid` > > Apparently, not everybody is experiencing this problem so the fix may > not work for everyone either. > > Ward Oldham > > > > On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 11:21 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > >> I think the homeland security stuff has gone on long enough and >> certainly won't be settled here. Let's get back to more germane >> issues. >> >> For example, how many of you are having trouble with X.10.2 losing >> domain name services? I run my own name server, so I thought for sure >> that was where the problem originated when my G4 started losing DNS. >> But then the iBook started doing the same thing, so I've decided it's >> in X. Is there a permanent fix? I go in and restart the service, but >> that only fixes it for a while. >> >> >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November >> 26 >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2245 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021121/11592b18/attachment.bin
