On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only thing I can think of is that it sounds like Back to My Mac is > asking the DNS to resolve the name of some Apple server, and your ISPs DNS > either has no idea where it is or has it blocked. > > I would manually set my the DNS on my Mac to a public server, like 4.4.4.4 > or open DNS, and see if Back to My Mac likes that better. > I have tried Google's public DNS service (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) to no avail. > My second attack would be to Google the syndrome, > I'll keep trying, but so far, only a bunch of threads on the Apple support discussion groups that all conclude that the solution is to remove something called BroadBand Tuner - which I don't have installed (verified by their instructions) > and my third would be to wireshark the connection, which is quite > laborious. > I don't know this one, but I'll give it a try - can't be worse than the 10-15 hours I've spent with other miscellaneous non-working answers! Thank you for your help! > > > On Apr 3, 2014, at 4:35 PM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:05 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02 Apr 2014, at 16:24 , Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > "Back to my Mac isn't working properly because the DNS server is not >> responding" and suggests I contact my internet service provider for a >> different DNS server address. >> >> What are your DNS servers set to? >> >> Does B2MM work despite the message? >> > > > Sorry - missed this email....They are the defaults for my ISP: > 76.14.0.8/9(all other services that use DNS - like web browsing - work just > fine) and > no BTMM does not work > > UPDATE : > > I asked my new ISP to reconnect my line to my old ISP (they can access the > cable closets in my building). They did, and BTMM still did not work. > > It worked as recently as a week ago with my old ISP. I have to conclude > that either Apple updated something behind the scenes that I don't know > about or something in changing the network knocked this out of whack. > > I don't know where to start to look for a resolution...any suggestions are > very much appreciated!! > > Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > >
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