Can you resolve any external hosts from a terminal window using nslookup? When you said that you could ping by hostname, were you pinging internal hosts with the same DNS suffix? (I think Macs call this search domain or something similar.)
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > DHCP. When it wasn’t working, I changed to static info and still > nothing. The reboot does fix it temporarily but it just seems to come back > in 24 hours.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, February 17, 2012 9:04 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: dns issue with browser (OS X)**** > > ** ** > > DHCP or static IP addressing?**** > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote:** > ** > > Hi All,**** > > **** > > I have one specific user using a Mac who cannot resolve DNS properly in > Firefox or Safari on OS X 10.6.8. They can ping by hostnames just fine. > They can get to any website by IP just fine but not by hostname. Any > ideas? I’m stumped and Google hasn’t been very helpful this morning.**** > > **** > > Thanks,**** > > **** > > Jimmy**** > > **** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
