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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Another Safari puzzle
Date: 17 Mar 2014 18:15:02 GMT
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On 2014-03-17, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> Just reading the "Safari puzzle" thread - I have something which may or
> may not be similar. Sometimes (and this situation may last for a few
> days and then go away for a few days) I have a problem reaching a
> website - such as news.bbc.co.uk. The page just refuses to complete
> loading, and will sometimes abort (X at the end of the address bar) and
> a messed up page (as if, for example, some style sheets didn't load).
> Reloading and reloading doesn't help.
>
> But, I can then click on a link within the page, and the linked-to page
> loads properly immediately (well, within the expected delay, anyway),
> and then that page has a link back to the news page - which also then
> loads properly very quickly. So it's another puzzle but I'll try the
> defualts write and see if that makes a difference.

One possibility that comes to mind is that DNS resolution is failing
intermittently, which could cause a similar type of behavior. When web
pages fail in this way, it would be good to know whether DNS requests
are being handled correctly at that time. If you are using your ISPs DNS
servers, you might consider switching to OpenDNS, which is free and
typically much more reliable than ISP offerings:

<http://www.opendns.com>

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JR