Showing that lookupd -flushcache has done its job

I have a small, but annoyingly growing, list of websites that I can't
access - the connection just times out - on this machine running OS
10.4.10.

The standard response from various places on the web is to clear by
cache using lookupd -flushcache (or variants of it including sudo) -
but that's not worked. Is there any way to actually view the size of
the cache to make sure it has cleared.

If that's not it, where can the problem actually lie, and where is it
most likely to be? My router? My ISP?

Thanks,
Mark

 

Of the three that I currently can't get onto, two of them time out on
a traceroute when they get to the hosts (rackspace.net and
theplanet.com). I've just checked a third site that I've not been
able to connect to in the last few days and the traceroute connects
fine to that, so that may be a different issue.

Mark

 

i tried sending a message did it post?

I tried posting a reply -- it's not showing up -- WTF google?

here is what I replied to you:



there are KNOWN unresolved lookupd bugs in OSX that apple refuses to
acknowledge and has failed to fix.

currently there are temporary workarounds that eventually stop working
because it's a BUG.

However, here are some resources that have 'temporarily' worked for
many, incl. me and they always stop working and have to be re-
implemented.

do a search for lookupd and you will see ALL THE FRIGGIN CRAP
PROBLEMS of this bug that has existed since the beginning of OS X.

to see the current lookupd configuration type this in the terminal:
lookupd -configuration

To fix it: In the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal), do this
(from the admin account):

sudo mkdir /etc/lookupd
sudo sh -c "echo TimeToLive 300 > /etc/lookupd/hosts"
sudo sh -c "echo ValidateCache NO >> /etc/lookupd/hosts"


You check to see if settings changed from time to time by:
lookupd -configuration

To partially fix the page load problem for safari, do this:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay -float
0.25

to see if settings of .25 are staying: enter this in terminal
defaults read com.apple.Safari | grep WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay


links/resources proof that is it a long-time bug and ongoing problem
for both users & even in os x servers:
http://www.dreamlight.com/insights/bugs/Apple/lookupd.html (also
has numerous links at the bottom of that page)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=lookupd+bug&btnG=Search
http://www.hmug.org/man/8/lookupd.php
http://www.inertramblings.com/2004/05/11/mac-os-x-clearing-dns-cache
http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2006-09/flushing_the_dns_cache
http://www.afp548.com/search.php?query=lookupd&type=all&mode=search
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/t...9AAE5EFBE55427618F734?topicId=106666602&sid=1
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/t...B0B?topicId=108215128&postId=1080866034&sid=1
http://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=5668
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061016103520346
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2004-December.txt
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200605/msg00075.html
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Firefox-Extensions/browse_thread/thread/25f81ed28d8eb6d2
http://forums.techguy.org/69-apple-macintosh/
http://www.google.com/search?num=10...=change+safari+page+load+settings&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=os+x+drops+connection&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=os+x+failed+connection&btnG=Search

still apple has failed to resolve fix explain or give a flying crap.