[TriLUG] annoying OS X issue

[Jeff Groves]

Jason Tower wrote:

>On Monday 06 December 2004 21:11, Greg Brown wrote:
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>>I think this is related to the darwin BSDish bits under the covers so
>>here it does.  When I am doing research on the web I will come across
>>links that I have never visited before.  The first time I click on
>>one of these links using Firefox (as well as Safari, etc) the website
>>will not come up and I get the following error: <website name> could
>>not be found, please check the name and try again.  I can then
>>immediatly click on the same link and it will go right through.
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>>At first I thought this was a DNS issue so I set up my edge box (my
>>monowall) to be my DNS proxy of sorts (I query monowall and mono
>>queries the world and reports back to me).
>>
>>Anyway the problem persists after I have made the DNS change.  Any
>>ideas regarding why this is happening?  Is anyone else suffering in
>>this way?  :)  My wife's laptop does the same thing as mine so I
>>don't think this is a "just me" thing.  For the record I am running
>>the latest OS X with the standard 7.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version.
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>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Greg
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>i get this every once in a while too on my powerbook.
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This might be a long shot, but have you run the 'tweak test' on 
www.broadbandreports.com?

http://www.broadbandreports.com/tweaks

Perhaps that will pick-up on what's going on...

Just a wild guess,

Jeff G.