Re: DNS Timeout

[Daniel Kerr]

On 4/9/06 10:17 AM, "Michael Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> My son has seen the light and bought a MacBook. His ISP is Amnet on a 8mbs
> service. Almost every time he attempts to retrieve a webpage he either gets
> a "DNS timed out" error message which comes up as soon as he hits the
> "return" key, or the connection stalls just after the progress colour bar
> has coloured in the http://www part of the url. If he hits the refresh
> button, the website is immediately displayed on his screen.
> 
> He is using OS 10.4.7 (combo update), has repaired permissions, and has
> installed Safari Debugger. He has the problem on Safari and on Firefox.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael Hawkins.
> 
> 

Hi Michael

Get him to try the following and it may work.

Go to System Preferences, then Network. Then edit (Configure) the
configuration he's using (Ethernet I'd imagine)
The window should open up into "Show: Built-in Ethernet"
Click on the tab for "TCP/IP"
About half way down is the "DNS Servers".
In here put in the Amnet DNS Numbers. You might have to get this from them
as I've looked through their website and it's either not there, or really
well hidden. (Edit, ignore that,..google is great)
Here are the DNS numbers:-
203.161.127.1
203.153.224.42
203.30.44.23
203.30.44.24

Put those in, and click Apply Now. Quite out of System Preferences and try
it. He should fine it then works fine.

And on a side note, it would appear it's something that a few others have
had problems with.


But you should find that fixes the problem.

Hope it helps.

Kind Regards
Daniel
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DNS Timeout

[Michael Hawkins]

My son has seen the light and bought a MacBook. His ISP is Amnet on a 8mbs
service. Almost every time he attempts to retrieve a webpage he either gets
a "DNS timed out" error message which comes up as soon as he hits the
"return" key, or the connection stalls just after the progress colour bar
has coloured in the http://www part of the url. If he hits the refresh
button, the website is immediately displayed on his screen.

He is using OS 10.4.7 (combo update), has repaired permissions, and has
installed Safari Debugger. He has the problem on Safari and on Firefox.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Michael Hawkins.