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: 2021 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021121/be6c220c/attachment.bin
