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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Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Rocket321I wish that were the case, but that was one of the first things I tried when I discovered that things were working fine on the PCs. The problem still occurs even on a brand new PC test bed. I am glad to know that none of the other Tiger users seem to have the problem, so at least it's not a Tiger "thing."
Take care,
Anand
Rocket321 - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Perhaps the dns server is the issue, but the non mac machines are not affected because they have been to the correct site previously and have cached the correct path.On an 2k/XP machine open a command line and run ipconfig /flushdns and then try "anandtech" again.
Hopefully that will recreate the problem under windows.
blckgrffn - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Sounds like you are cursed, Anand ;) Macs must not like you anymore...or maybe they are jealous of all that time you spend with PC hardware... :DNat
anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Rocket321Yep, the problem happens in Firefox too.
creathir
Nope, the only common software is Tiger - remember that one of the machines is a clean install, I put Tiger on it and opened up Safari to try to replicate the problem and that's all that has been done on that computer since the install.
egarc - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Running Tiger GM. I get www.anandtech.com and www.slashdot.org. No redirection.creathir - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Is there any software that is common to all of them? Could it be causing a conflict of somesort?Rocket321 - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Have you tried using a different web browser on the affected machines?Anand Lal Shimpi - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
Rocket321nope, it's clean on all machines.
Michael2k - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
#3: You probably won't like Longhorn either then.Anand, is there a Tiger review in the works? I've been wondering if Apple had implemented hardware acceleration for the DVD player (deinterlacing, playback, etc).
Rocket321 - Friday, April 22, 2005 - link
check you /private/etc/hosts file and make sure there isn't anything weird in there.