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• Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  hopejr
  
  Nope, I made sure of that (note that I've never visited either of the redirected sites prior to this problem). The problem also occurs on a brand new install of Tiger (erase and install) on the Mac mini, where there are no previously visited websites.
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• hopejr - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  Anand,
  It quite possibly could be autocompleting a previously visited url that was successfully loaded when you tried the slashdot one, but the other, hmm, that's weird.
  

• anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  yeah I figured it was DNS related, but I believe I even had the problem while I was away with my PowerBook visiting AMD. I am not 100% sure though as a lot was going on at the time :)
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• maharajah - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  web :)

• maharajah - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  Are all the boxes talking to the same DNS server?
  Maybe the Tiger machines are on different DNS servers than the other machines.
  I know the last few weeks there has been a lot of DNS issues in the wibbly wobbly wed.

• anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  Ok so here's what's interesting, on any and all of my Macs I'm finding this issue while running Tiger builds after 8A420. The builds were downloaded directly from ADC so there's no chance of any external tampering or anything like that. Here's what happens:
  
  I type in anandtech and I get redirected to: http://www.nume.com/
  I type in slashdot and I get redirected to: http://slashdot/home.jsp?domain=slashdot&track=true&referrer=
  
  If I complete the URLs myself, everything is fine.
  
  The problem happens on three separate machines, my G5 with an Archive & Install of Tiger, my PowerBook with an Archive & Install of Tiger and the mini with a clean install of Tiger. And it doesn't happen on Panther and it doesn't happen on any Windows boxes.
  
  Any thoughts?

• Jon - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  Same thing that happens in Safari in Panther. This has been a feature of Safari for quite a while.
  
  #3: I don't what you do, but if you used Tiger for anything more than browsing, you should notice a lot of improvement.

• Rand - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  A8428 here as well, typing anandtech serves me the www.anandtech.com site almost immediately.
  
  On another note- Tiger is wholly and completely underwhelming thus far.

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  hmm very interesting, that's how it is supposed to work but that's not how it's been working for me for the past several builds of Tiger.

• Rura - Thursday, April 21, 2005 - link

  Running 8A428 here and I get www.anandtech.com almost instantly when I type "anandtech". With "slashdot" it flickers to "www.slashdot.com" and then switches to "www.slashdot.org".