Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Another Safari puzzle Date: 17 Mar 2014 22:26:36 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <170320141748398394%timstreater@greenbee.net> <53275b9a$0$16968$c3e8da3$40d4fd75@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net MD8In7XhGVSFeXKuef+HjAje/o/BvYHKsXjBLOc8fLgSGKRU4H Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pgq7HxkejEfKpfLZ1F9CnlQ0YBU= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:21593 On 2014-03-17, Warren Oates wrote: > In article , > Jolly Roger wrote: > >> 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: >> >> > > I don't have anything against openDNS (even hi-jacking the unknown > results -- it's a free service after all) but they fail far more often > than Google's DNS. I've got them as my secondary server. Of course, they > don't fail as much as my ISP's DNS servers do. That's interesting. I haven't had name lookups through OpenDNS *ever* fail that I can remember. I dislike Google's practices with regard to data collection and so on; so I won't be sending all of my DNS through them any time soon. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR