For those of you running Tiger (build 8A420 or later), when you open Safari and type "anandtech" or "slashdot" without filling in the www or the .com/.org, what happens?
I'm trying to figure something out, please let me know what build you're running as well as what happens. Thanks.
I'm trying to figure something out, please let me know what build you're running as well as what happens. Thanks.
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Anonymous - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link
Try doing the following on Tiger:Close Safari
lookupd -flushcache
Open Safari and try your test.
Anonymous - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link
If your G5 is jealous that all of your PC test beds have two processors in them, why dont you take the new G5 dual 2.7 for a testspin :)Jon - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
37: What? Safari does not do this. I merely fills in www. and .com for whatever you type, if it can't detect an address pattern. It does not do a Google search.Calvin - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
If you input a non proper address (NOT www.xxx.yyy) into the bar in both mozilla or Safari, it does an i'm feeling lucky google search for it. You want to make sure that the first google link is stable to those addresss.On another note I get the browser redirect to www.anandtech.com when typing anandtech into Safari.
Hobbs - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
I don't know how, but running 'Dragster' almost always fixes many of my problems.MyK - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
This sounds to me like a Proxy, not a DNS problem, but I might be way wrong here. If Proxy server is using "IS LIKE" query or "FIND NEAREST" record search (MS) then this could be it. Try clearing its local cache...egarc - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
Firefox uses Gecko but Safari is based on Konquerer. This is a mystery indeed.So far, I haven't been able to duplicate it in Tiger.
Anonymous - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
No, Firefox does not do anything special on OS X. It uses it's own internal renderer. This issue appears to be related to something beyond the browser.Nate - Monday, April 25, 2005 - link
Anand,Maybe I'm a little off here, but I was under the impression that when a web browser sees something like "anandtech" instead of "www.anandtech.com" it uses it's own devices on how to complete it. Kinda like those popular browser hijacks for IE that replace the search function. What's wierd is that it happens in both Firefox and Safari. Apple must have their own (broken) version of Gecko they are forcing Firefox to use.
I'd try it out with a copy of IE, or another non-Gecko browser, for Mac and see if it's Gecko or if it's actually the DNS resolver for Tiger. I'd be interested to see what happens.
-Nate
Cane - Sunday, April 24, 2005 - link
One way to isolate the issue to either internal or external issues would be to capture the DNS exchange for both a PC (no issue) & a Mac (with issue).A true hub and a third system running tcpdump or ethereal can show you the actual request and response.
One possibility a capture would expose is if the DNS request from the PC's has the 'www' and '.com' already appended, while the Mac may be sending a raw 'anandtech', leaving the DNS machine to fill in the blanks.