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If the Time Machine backup you used to restore the Mac was created after you started noticing problems, maybe whatever drive corruption there was messed up some files that were backed up, leaving you with a good drive but still bad system files. The following instructions do triple duty: Of course they’re what you do to install OS X for the first time on a Mac or a freshly formatted hard or solid-state disk. But they’re also what you do if something really bad happens to the copy of OS X that you boot your Mac from, or if the version of OS X on your Mac is earlier than 10.10 El. Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store, and that installer doesn’t.

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Directory Service is responsible for maintaining the DNS cache on Leopard & Snow Leopard. Tools like dig, nslookup don't consult the cache, so they could be getting the records from the DNS servers not the cache.
FWIW you can do the following in Terminal to clear the cache - no reboot required.
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
Admin permission is required.

For what it's worth. Directory Services is not in charge of DNS any longer in Snow Leopard. Just Leopard. mDNSResponder took over the heavy lifting of DNS used by most of the system. There's a feature in Snow Leopard that will rearrange the order DNS servers are queried in order to try and speed up DNS requests and avoid the timeout of a DNS request (thereby making the computer look slow). There are a handful of threads on Apple's Discussions Groups and sites like Super User or Server Fault detailing more. Suffice to say, will clear the DNS cache and reset DNS. At my workplace, the removing external DNS servers from being broadcast via DHCP was the only fix (and a non-issue to implement)
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Edited on Dec 21, '09 10:18:51AM by Chealion
I've seen this exact same issue with 10.6 with both of my machines (Mini and MBP) showing this problem.
Since I'd changed the local DNS settings on the Mini and the DNS server advertised out on DHCP (to the MBP) to be only the BIND on the Mini, I've not had any resolution problems.

Had the same problem with only one Mac and the same solution. Vnc server for mac os x 10.12.

I've been having the exact same issue communicating with my Windows Home Server on my 13-inch MPB since I updated to snow leopard. Upon further testing I've identified that the server is failing to ARP my Mac's MAC address. I still haven't figured out why, but if I add a static MAC entry on the server, it works.

I had the same problem in Leopard (10.5). I could get DNS on the shared internet connections to resolve right after boot but then sometime later it would stop. I 'fixed' this problem by upgrading to snow leopard (10.6). Now the problem is gone.

I had this same problem after upgrading my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard (but not by Mac Pro or iMac). I determined that using the campus' DNS server (which is BIND) caused the DNS resolution to go wonky seemingly at random. Pointing to OpenDNS DNS servers fixed the problem on the laptop. I did report this to Apple and even after escalating it several stages and running Apple's diagnostic software for them to collect data from my machine, we could not find the root cause. I suspect some incompatibility between some version of BIND and how Snow Leopard does its DNS caching. See more details on the error in my blog post (look at the section on 'Ethernet Issues').

I had the same issue on three of my laptops that were upgraded to 10.6 in various places, at home, at my friends house.
I tried the following (with no success)
* Reset my router
* Reset my cable modem
* Disabled WPA/WEP protection
* Changed security protocol from WEP to WPA/WPA2
* Switched wireless channels – pick a channel no neighbor is using.
* Turned Airport on & off (via menu or Network preferences)
* Deleted and then recreate/reestablish wireless network connection
* Created a new Network Location
* Made sure your router firmware and Airport card firmware is up to date
* Zaped the PRAM on your Mac (hold Command+Option+P+R on restart)
* Flushed the DNS cache using the Terminal command: dscacheutil -flushcache
* Deleted the com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist and com.apple.internetconfig.plist files from ~/Library/Preferences
* Trashed my home directories SystemConfiguration folder and reboot
* Reset my Mac’s System Management Controller (SMC)
All those steps have helped a bit, but problem remained.
After all it turned out that thorough troubleshooting DNS settings in the routers fixed it.
My conclusion that it is a collective fault of IPS, router makers and Apple, who never tested their stuff well. The problem is really widespread, I found hunderds of calls for help from desperate snow leopard users.

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When connecting to various online services, your Mac will use certificates to validate a connection. If a certificate being used for a connection is expired or invalid, then OS X will notify you of this when attempting to use it, and offer you the choice of continuing with the connection, inspecting the certificate, or canceling the connection. Such warnings are convenient for detecting an invalid connection, such as one that might be malicious, so if they happen then consider looking into them; however, there may be times when practically every connection you attempt gives you a certificate warning.

When this happens, it suggests a problem with your certificate configuration, more than a problem with the connections at hand, and this may happen for several reasons, which can usually be fixed by one of the following approaches:

1. Check your date and time

Certificate authentication requires your Mac’s time be in sync with the server you are connecting to, so if for some reason your Mac’s time is off, then you may get these errors. To fix this, go to the Date & Time system preferences, and ensure the option to “Set date and time automatically” is checked (click the lock to authenticate if this option is grayed out). Be sure the time server used is one that is appropriate for your location, and then close the system preferences. Within a few moments, OS X should adjust your system clock, which should clear the certificate errors.

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Whenever you have certificate and authentication errors, be sure your system’s clock is accurate. You can ensure this is always the case by using a dedicated time server for your system.

2. Change trust settings for specific certificates

If this is happening only for specific certificates, and you trust that the service you are connecting to, then you can modify the trust settings for the certificate to allow the authentication to proceed. To do this, open the Keychain Access utility (in the Applications > Utilities folder), and select your login keychain. In here, click the Certificates category, and then locate the certificate for the service you are connecting to. You can do this by searching for the domain name of the service, or by sorting the certificates by name and scrolling through them.

If a certificate has a red “X” symbol on its icon, then this means the certificate has expired or is otherwise invalid. In these cases, you can right-click the certificate and remove it from your system. If the connection requires one, then it will be downloaded from the service again the next time you connect and authenticate.

Start by choosing this option to remove custom trust settings for your certificate, but also consider adjusting specific trust settings that pertain to your connection.

If the certificate has a blue plus symbol, then this indicates custom trust settings for the certificate, which may be the reason for the faults you are experiencing. For instance, a certificate may be used for SSL validation, but if this trust setting is not set up properly, then OS X will prompt you to use this certificate every time an SSL connection attempts to use it. Fixing this requires adjustment of the trust settings for the certificate:

  1. Double-click the certificate in Keychain Access to open it
  2. Expand the “Trust” settings section
  3. Choose “Use System Defaults” from the top-most menu

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The system defaults setting should have the certificate used for the appropriate connections on demand; however, you can also attempt to manually adjust the custom trust settings for the certificate. For instance, if you get this certificate error only when using a Kerberos single sign-on password, you might choose “Always Trust” for the Kerberos Client trust setting. You can try similar options for the other trust settings, but only enable those that the certificate is specifically used for.

3. Reset your keychain

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Finally, you can take steps to reset your Mac’s keychain certificates. While you should not need to clear your entire keychain and set it up from scratch again, you can select and remove the certificates that are mentioned by these errors. Doing so will have the system re-download new certificates for connections that demand them, potentially overcome configuration errors in the prior certificates. Note that you should only do this for your account’s login keychain. There is a special keychain called “System Roots” that contains a number of certificates. These are public certificates issued by numerous trusted certification authorities, and are used to validate certificates issued by online services to which you connect. Removing or modifying these will break your ability to validate connections, so it is best to leave these alone.