

with ping) inevitably stopped working at some point a few hours after boot. Despite all that, DNS resolution in general (e.g. In my case, everything else was fine: mDNSResponder was running and working, host/ nslookup worked, both /etc/nf and networksetup reported the correct DNS servers, etc. In any case, let us know the exact outputs of these commands. The power of dig comes from the fact that you can specify what type of query you want to perform (Among other things). 2 IN A 184.24.141.15Īs you can see, dig is much more "verbose" (which is good to debug what the heck is going on).

NSLookup is an old command (that was supposed to be deprecated some years ago and replaced by DIG, but its easy to use syntax was too good to kill I guess.), its "replacement" is dig, a much more powerful command, whose syntax is more crazy.ĭig ANd here's the output: $ dig > DiG 9.7.3 > (1 server found) Nslookup "host to resolve" "DNS server to use". So to resolve using google's server, you'd type: Last but not least, your Mac comes with two important DNS commands, nslookup and dig. If it doesn't, then you can start digging what your current user has that could be causing the issue if it also fails, then you know this is something more "system" related.Īlso take a look around the Console to see if you can spot something that may be related (and would like to paste around here).
#Nslookup mac address install#

DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. The server at can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. It doesn't work, see Google Chrome output: Have you tried using 8.8.8.8 (google) or any of the OpenDNS.I've also tried Google's 8.8.4.4 and 205.171.3.65 (which I found from GRC's DNS Benchmark to be the fastest). This is a company DNS server that is given with DHCP, it works well for What is/are the IP address(es) of the DNS(s) you want to use?.Can you ping the DNS you want to use? $ ping.deleting connection credentials and adding it again.The computers are 15" MacBook Pros, early 2011 model.
#Nslookup mac address windows 7#
They can use DNS in a Windows 7 virtual machine (VMware Fusion 3.1.3) running on OS X.
#Nslookup mac address mac os#
Some of my co-workers are having troubles on their Macs - DNS resolution does not work in Mac OS X.
