http://tidbits.com/ After finding himself unable to get updates via the App Store app, Adam Engst changed his DNS servers and everything suddenly started working. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15909 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:05:56 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15909
You want this Terminal command instead:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

mDNSResponder doesn’t control the regular DNS cache (unless something changed recently).]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15752 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:45:51 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15752 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15751 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:41:40 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15751 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15665 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:39:44 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15665 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15658 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:28:53 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15658 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15651 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:15:44 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15651 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15648 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:51:54 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15648 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15647 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:45:26 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15647 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15644 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:48:30 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15644 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15643 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:48:20 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15643 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15642 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:24:18 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15642 This is an demo of the risk of "white lie" DNS as a tool for protecting people from bad stuff.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15641 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:56:34 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15641
sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Here is the link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4289718?start=0&tstart=0]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15640 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:54:54 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15640 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15639 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:45:44 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15639
I did not change DNS servers.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15637 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:01:46 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15637 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15636 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:49:15 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15636
I've seen this with Apple when I use OpenDNS and try to download something from the developer site or other places. It often crawls. If I switch DNS servers to Comcast's, it speeds up.

Google uses slightly different cues, and it seems that it might be better telling a CDN where the user is. I'm surprised to see an actual error, but this does sound similar.

There's a proposal in the words to update DNS servers (and only major ones would have to adopt the patch) so that a public DNS provider could give a little information about the source of a DNS request to help nudge the CDN to offer a server that's correctly close enough.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15635 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:49:14 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15635 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13259?rss#comments_15634 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:48:22 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13259#comments_15634