07-14-2014, 12:02 AM
hal wrote:
I was just coming back to say that the spigot has opened. A page that had been sitting there trying to load for 30 min (never got the network error thingy) loaded and now all computers open all apple web pages at blazing speeds.
[quote=Chakravartin]
Run the Network Utility from your Utilities folder and do a traceroute to apple.com.
Does it report an unknown host?
Does it stall and show asterisks at one point? If so, what's the last server that it hit before it stalled?
SO assuming that this was the case, this is one of those things that one can do nothing about and just wait for the server to reset - or something like that???
Basically, yes.
If it's a DNS problem then you'll either get an unknown host error or it'll take forever to resolve the address of the server you're trying to connect to.
If it's a problem on one of the (potentially dozens) many ISPs between your home and the site then you'll see asterisks show up indicating time-outs waiting for the next host to respond en route to the site you're trying to hit.
The neat thing is that both issues can be resolved by changing your DNS settings. Temporarily switching to a public DNS server on another coast or continent can make your queries take an alternate route to the site for the duration of the outage.