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I experienced this a couple of weeks ago. My wifi was up, but my internetprovider was down. My Macbook came to a halt. Nothing worked anymore. The whole machine
by berryg 6y ago
I experienced this a couple of weeks ago. My wifi was up, but my internetprovider was down. My Macbook came to a halt. Nothing worked anymore. The whole machine was extremely slow. When the internetprovider came back up again, everything was fine again.
- kps 6y agoSo you can't use a computer on an airgapped network? That seems counterproductive if the objective is security.
- floatingatoll 6y agoIf your computer is actually airgapped and has no networking interfaces configured, you won't have this issue. If your computer is able to resolve DNS for ocsp.apple.com but to connection-timeout all traffic, yes, you could possibly reproduce today's issue.
- kps 6y agoAirgapped network — an IP LAN not connected to the internet. These do exist, sometimes permanently for security reasons, and sometimes just where external connectivity sucks but you still want your laptop to talk to your NAS.
- justinclift 6y agoAgreed. These are really useful in various settings, but seem to be outside of most people's experience.
- floatingatoll 6y agoThe point stands: if you allow a host to resolve ocsp.apple.com to an unresponsive (timeout) address, it might break macOS the same as today — whether by air gap, by firewall, or who knows what else.
- aunty_helen 6y agoHad the same thing earlier in the week as the isp was doing maintenance two nights in a row. 5+ seconds to start sublime and other really basic apps. Apple apps had no problem of course. Remembering the notarization problems people were having months ago I did some tests and confirmed. Now have little snitch installed again and my laptops going to be an Apple orphan. So I never noticed this problem today by virtue of it pissing me off 2 days before.
- hackerfromthefu 6y agoMight as well get a chromebook then hahaha