Leopard, DNS trouble with CNAMES

Hello,
Hopefully someone in the forums will be able to help me out with this. Apple's phone support for this problem was extremely frustrating and left me extremely disappointed with the company and the purchase of my first Mac. The "2nd teir" support technician couldn't even adequately describe to me what DNS does and refused to transfer me to a more qualified technician.
I've found that Leopard does not seem to handle DNS CNAME -> IP address lookups. An example is listed below. This is not limited to SSH. I have problems with HTTP connections as well. It's just easier to post the text. Has anyone else encountered this and come up with a solution?
cncuxmbp01:~ kcurrie$ nslookup splunk.tare.local
Server: 161.179.68.76
Address: 161.179.68.76#53
splunk.tare.local canonical name = cncux1z06.us.aegon.com.
Name: cncux1z06.us.aegon.com
Address: 161.179.77.141
cncuxmbp01:~ kcurrie$ ssh splunk.tare.local
ssh: Error resolving hostname splunk.tare.local: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

The problem is that dot-local names are looked up using Multicast DNS on Mac OS X. Trying adding "local" to your list of search domains in the Network pref pane. That will work around the problem.

Similar Messages

DNS weirdness with cname lookups

Good morning,
Set up: I have MacMini Server running 10.6 and three Mac clients (two with Snow Leopard and one with Lion). All software updates are applied. Two of the clients are connected with ethernet cable and one is connected over the Airport. I use the server to provide DHCP for clients but one client uses a manual ip address. I'm also running DNS with one primary zone for the server (basically).   Forwarder ip addresses are set to 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 and recursive queries are accepted from "localnets". This set up has been in place working for many months.
Problem: Yesterday morning, my wife, using her computer (one of the 10.6 clients), complained that her mail was not coming in. We use Apple Mail to connect to Gmail using imap. Mine continued to work fine even though the set up is basically the same but I use the Lion client. There were not any problems browsing and she could get the mail through the Gmail web site, just not imap.
Actions: Through troubleshooting I determined the problem to be associated with DNS lookups of cname records. Lookup of gmail-imap.l.google.com works fine, lookup of imap.gmail.com fails.
Tims-Mac-mini:Programming tim$ dig imap.gmail.com
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> imap.gmail.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
=====================
Tims-Mac-mini:Programming tim$ dig gmail-imap.l.google.com
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> gmail-imap.l.google.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6239
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gmail-imap.l.google.com.          IN          A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 231          IN          A          173.194.77.108
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 231          IN          A          173.194.77.109
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com.                    98135          IN          NS          ns1.google.com.
google.com.                    98135          IN          NS          ns4.google.com.
google.com.                    98135          IN          NS          ns3.google.com.
google.com.                    98135          IN          NS          ns2.google.com.
;; Query time: 422 msec
;; SERVER: <local_DNS_server_ip>#53(<local_DNS_server_ip>)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 28 07:14:17 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 145
Initally, this behavior was only on the 10.6 clients but is now also present on the Lion client.
I have used dscacheutil to flush the cache on clients and the server multiple times but it doesn't seem to help.
Yesterday afternoon, I threw up my hands and rebooted the server. It worked (I thought) so I decided it was a mystery I would not understand.
But, the problem returned last night. A lookup of imap.gmail.com works from the server but not from any of the clients.
Does anyone know what is going on? What can I test next?
Thank you in advance.
Tim

It can be the DNS servers your pointing to, normally, I like to go against the SOA for the server to get the correct records.. Take a look here at the DNS for Imap.gmail.com , as you can see it goes after ns1.google.com as the authority server. It returns two A records, gmail-imap.l.google.com , keep in mind if there are no MX records present then the "A" records are used.
Of course you can do all these commands with DIG and get the SOA record and then go against that name server, but your right it is a little wierd that something is messed up. It might be a routing issue outside of your control.
When I go against 8.8.8.8 I get the same response that I get at the site linked in above.
; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 imap.gmail.com A
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4861
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.gmail.com.               IN     A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
imap.gmail.com.          300     IN     CNAME     gmail-imap.l.google.com.
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 300     IN     A     173.194.70.109
gmail-imap.l.google.com. 300     IN     A     173.194.70.108
;; Query time: 18 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Sun Apr 29 23:55:16 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

Leopard DNS Server: Zones with SPF records?

Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out how to setup SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records for some domains I'm currently managing with a Leopard DNS server and I don't see any documentation anywhere. Can someone please tell me if it's even an option? I'm new to running DNS with Leopard, so I could use all the help I can get.
Sincerely,
Israel
Message was edited by: Israel Thompson
Message was edited by: Israel Thompson

Israel Thompson wrote:
So let me see if I have this right. Any changes I want to make that will not be editable in the GUI, I want to do them in db.mydomain.com instead of db.mydomain.com.zone.apple? Easy enough. However I tried adding "v=spf1 a mx ~all" (with quotes) to my file and it appeared to have broken the dns zone. What’s the proper way to enter these in manually? Can you give me an example of how it looks in your zone files? I’ve pasted a sample of mine below. Tell me if anything is wrong.
Israel,
I am new to Leopard Server - so I'm no DNS guru. I, too, have not used a DNS setup tool that requires a FQDN just associate an IP with the base of the domain (mydomain.com.). How did you get your 'mydomain.com. IN A 11.22.33.44' accomplished? Did you create a new A record and put mydomain.com. in the Machine Name field?
Here's my setup:
========================
db.mydomain.com
========================
;THE FOLLOWING INCLUDE WAS ADDED BY SERVER ADMIN. PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE.
$INCLUDE /var/named/zones/db.mydomain.com.zone.apple
========================
db.mydomain.com.zone.apple
========================
$TTL 10800
mydomain.com. IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. admin.mydomain.com. (
2008010951 ;Serial
7200 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
345600 ;Negative caching TTL
mydomain.com. IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN NS ns.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN A 64.251.168.218
mydomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip:64.251.168.218 ip:64.251.168.220 ~all"
www IN A 64.251.168.218
mail.mydomain.com. IN A 64.251.168.220
mail.mydomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a ~all"
xserve.mydomain.com. IN A 64.251.168.218
xserve.mydomain.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a ~all"
ns IN A 64.251.168.218
ns1 IN A 64.251.168.220
mydomain.com. IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
... where xserve.mydomain.com is my machine's hostname.
I have a funky setup for DNS because I don't have a different, or second, DNS server (just the one on my Xserve with everything else) and my name servers are under this zone. I added the two IPs for my mail and hostname to the base SPF record. Someone could still spoof from using the name or www domains (same IPs) but I can check for it using Postfix up front. I also added "v=spf1 a ~all" in case another mail server tries to check the mailing server or hostname directly.
You'll usually want to set a TXT "v=spf1 ~all" (SPF null) for any records that have no possibility for mail origins, like your ftp and mobile, but it appears you also have a similar issue to me - those services will be running under the same IPs as the mail service. This is why I added "v=spf1 a ~all" to all essential services (mail and hostname). I don't know what will happen if you add an SPF null to an unnecessary service that happens to also have the same IP. (Will the IP get blocked in a cache during a lookup??) So I didn't add an SPF TXT to those domains. I'm a little confused at this point. I should probably read more about it.
http://www.openspf.org/FAQ/Common_mistakes
Also, you'll notice I added FQDN to mail and xserve. If I do this and ensure they are in my reverse DNS PTR records then I've seen that when I add new zone records with same IPs (like for another domain) then the PTR records don't keep switching to the newest entry (why does it do that?).
I don't think your use of the . in the CNAME records is correct. I think the CNAME records are probably unnecessary since you have already fully defined the domains in A records. Also, those A records probably don't need FQDNs (with the ending .). I only added mine for the reason noted above, concerning the PTR records.
I hope someone who knows some more than I can chime in on this.
Larry
Message was edited by: Larry_S (removed mx from SPF TXT for main domain record, as it was redundant with the ip:)

Trouble with DNS set up

Hello !
I've got a real trouble with my dns configuration... and i can't understand! so, i need some help....
well, qutie newbie in mac os server, i run in on a G4, and i had not noticed any trouble until i've decided to run open directory as a master with LDAP, wanting to have a kerberos protection for the users.
Kerberos doesn't want to play with me !
I've been in console mode to have a look, and, actually i've seen this :
"Oct 17 11:31:08 wakan servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no name available via DNS for 192.168.0.109
Oct 17 11:31:08 wakan servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no reverse DNS entry for server, various services may not function properly"
Ok... my DNS has a trouble... but i don't know how to fix it ! Is there anybody in this world who can help me?
I don't want to have a real DNS for my little server... but i understand that my config is not good. I can understand that having a caching DNS can improve the quality of my config, and, in other hand that it is necessary for having the services of OSX server in an effeciant way, but i don't know the way and the parameters i've to put in my config to fix it.
Now, just some words on my config...
First, i've got an adress provided by my FAI (the frenchy workd for ISP, i think) is "193.252.209.135". This adress is set on a d-link modem router via PPOE. The DNS of my provider (wanadoo.fr) are 80.10.246.1 and 80.10.246.132.
After this there is my G4 With mac osX server.
• en0, the "extenal gate" and the internal ethernet on the computer is plug on the modem with the adress "192.168.0.109". the router is set on "192.168.0.1". the dns are 80.10.246.1 and 80.10.246.132.
• en1, the "internal gate" for the network, an PCI card in the computer, has the parameters : adress "192.168.3.1", subnet "255.255.255.0", router "192.168.3.1". no dns records. (no VPN service for the moment). After this, i've a switch for the macs behind the server. (without any link agregation)
All those parameters have been set by the gateaway assistant.
And now the parameters inside the admin server :
DHCP : en1 - adress from 192.168.3.2 to 192.168.3.254, name 192.168.3. no static card. Router 192.168.3.1. No name for domaine by defaut, name servers 80.10.246.1 and 80.10.246.132 No LDAP, no WINS.
DNS : No zone transfert, recursivity is ON. No zone records.
NAT : set on full, Transfert and Network Address Translation.
When i've been on the terminal, i had those information:
"wakan:~ st$ sudo changeip -checkhostname
Password:
Primary address = 192.168.0.109
Current HostName = wakan.local
The DNS hostname is not available, please repair DNS and re-run this tool."
All my "main" services are working fine (AFP, Firewall, DHCP, DNS, Update) Open Directory is running without Kerberos. By the way, all the macs after the G4server can have a corect access to internet, and share information via LDAP of Open Directory, but i've to say that, a couple of days later, a friend of mine, who has a PC computer, can't have a DHCP dynamic address when he plug on my little network. I think that it is an other trouble, and i've decided to have e look to this later... but if someone knows how to resolve it...
So here begins the nightmare for me... so if anybody can help me... i realy need some help to fix this mystery!!!
Special thanks!

As the router modem is already doing NAT why use NAT in the server?
If you want to use OpenDirectory and other services you should/need to set up the DNS correctly using the server's private IP (and others in the same range the server is setup with). The domainname used internally can be different than your public one.
And then use the server as the only DNS for you LAN clients and the server itself. Forwarders (your ISP DNSes) in /etc/named.conf usually speeds up lookups of external addresses (also turning off IPv6 can help that too).

I'm having trouble with Snow Leopard server disconnecting.

I'm having trouble with Snow Leopard server disconnecting. Recently upgraded my laptops to latest MacBook Pro OSX Lion, but everything has been fine since December until now. I did just add a 2TB Drive to the set-up (OWC Mercury Elite AL-Pro) in a Daisy chain of 2 other 2TB drives and a 3TB Drive that had been working perfectly up until now. I was able to use it yesterday, but now it has gone haywire and I lose connections while working on files or saving files. Have to restart server and it works for a while, but then drops off. Could Server be corrupt?

Hi clemenbw,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
In your situation, I would recommend reading over the attached article to help you troubleshoot your Magic Mouse Bluetooth connectivity issues.
Troubleshooting wireless mouse and keyboard issues
Have a great day,
Joe

Trouble with Update snow leopard 10.6.8 and 10.6.7

Hi,
Since one week, I have trouble with snow leopard.
My child has shut down our imac roughly with the on/off button. So after the restart and before the blue screen the display
is frozen with crazy pixel. I have to look for information for a week, tried all the reset (alt cmd P R , reset smc, safe mode etc ...)
After that I' installed all the OSX snow leopard with the DVD with the 10.6 version
This version is ok and the imac works fine but if I'upgrade this version to 10.6.8 with the combo package
I have the same problem : the display is frozen with crazy pixels
And If I' upgrade with the combo package 10.6.7 somme windows are grey and the menu is grey, the apple menu is black
The fonts are bad.
Before all these installation, I perfromed a smc reset, four times nvram reset, erase hard drive and after
that installation of snow leopard.
The Safe Mode works. Hardware test is OK . disk is Ok ( I used the disk utility),permission is OK
Do you have a solution
Thanks

Hello,
Are you using software Update or getting it directly?
Try re-installing the big 10.6.8 Combo...
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Repair Permissions afterwords, reboot.
If that doesn't do it, it sounds like a video card problem, have you blown the dust out lately?
Boot off your *original* Install Disk while holding down the *d key*, (not c key), then run the extended Apple Hardware Test. Some disks require you to use the Option key at bootup to select AHT. Some Discs have it inexplicably on Disc #2.

HT1338 I have a Leopard desktop 10.5.8 and I have trouble with MAIL. My draft folder does not work and my draft messages will not delete. delete

I have a Leopard desktop 10.5.8 and I have trouble with my Email Apple MAIL draft folder. First of all after I typed my draft and sent to draft, the folder would not open at a later date to send. In all I have 10 messages, mainly test which I cannot delete from my Draft folder.
My draft system is now working but I cannot get rid of the 10 messages which sit in my INBOX and DRAFT folders.
These messages appear in Application - Mail but they will not go.
How do I delete, or is it best to use My Disc 1# and delete all my software and replace with the Disc in order to have a new MAIL program?
Any advice would be welcome.

HI,
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

I have a macbook and was having trouble with safari so I removed it and am trying to re-download but it says snow leopard and lion are too big. which version of safari can i download?

I have a macbook and was having trouble with safari so I removed it and am trying to re-download but it says snow leopard and lion are too big. which version of safari can i download?

Which operating system are you running? Not sure, click the apple on the left of the menu bar, the click about this mac. It will say version 10.6.x or 10.7.x.

Big troubles with FTP upload since upgrade to leopard

Hello out there,
I made an upgrade from tiger to leopard 3 weeks ago (10.5.7) on my iMac (Intel - early 2006). Since this time I Have big troubles with ftp upload.
I'm using Cyberduck as FTP client and it worked very well before but since the upgrade it starts quick and falls down to a view kb after a view seconds. Sometimes it stops completely.
Target Server is checked and working well. Also the ISP is fine (tested with a windows machine).
As it is important for my business (photographer) I would appreciate if somebody can give me a quick hint how to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance

I am also experiencing this problem, but only (so far) with one hosting company of the many I FTP into (web designer). The symptoms are exactly as reported above. Files initially start uploading fine, then slow to a crawl and stall. This is the same regardless of FTP software. Error reports say the server is not responding.
This problem is the same using my daughter's computer (also running 10.5.7), but my son (being my son) hasn't updated his OS since 10.5.5 and I encounter NO problems whatsoever FTPing from his machine, nor from a PC.
It's only the uploads that seem to cause a problem. Communicating with the server to download, rename, move or delete files presents no issues.
(In trying to track down where the problem was, I also discovered that the traceroute command to any site on both 10.5.5 and 10.5.7 stalls at the modem, though pings work fine as does tracert from the PC.)

Trouble with my MacBook Pro OS X snow leopard

I am having trouble with my MacBook Pro. I get a blank screen with a flashing document file with a question mark in it, yes I have tried to install Mac OS X with the original disk but I get no choices of where I wish to install Mac OS X. Please help ;(

Start up from the install disk. Don't start an install: from the Utilities menu choose Disk Utility. Select your internal hard disk (if you can) in the sidebar and click 'Repair disk'. Wait for the process to complete.
It's possible that the disk has failed. If Disk Utility is unable to complete a repair then you will need the services of an Apple-certified technician.

TFS and Build Server 2013 with CNAME

Hello Team
As we have TFS 2013 with Update 3 on windows server 2012 and another windows server 2012 machine have build server installed. It is working well with machine name and build is running properly.
Once i tried to change the machine with CNAME its not started and throwing error like below:
Team Foundation Build Configuration
Build Service endpoint cannot be configured with a host machine other than
MACHINENAME.
OK
I tried to disable loop-back, firewall rule already applied, DNS pointed to correct IP address, DNS Flush already done and also i tried to un-register and register to new one but getting same error. Unable to register with CNAME ?
BotheTFS 2013 and Build Server have version
TFS Build- 12.0.30723.0 (Tfs2013.Update3)
TFS Server- 12.0.30723.0 (Tfs2013.Update3)
Any help ... thanks in advance!!!
Thanks Ranveer Katiyar

Can someone assist me on this ? I am stuck and unable to configure CNAME to Build Server and getting error
Team Foundation Build Configuration
Build Service endpoint cannot be configured with a host machine other than MACHINENAME.
OK
Thanks Ranveer Katiyar

Trouble with Mac Unexpectedly Quitting

I have a iMac with the following hardware overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version: 1.20f4
I have trouble with programs unexpectedly quitting and am having trouble finding out what's wrong. The most problems occur when using Photoshop Elements 4.0.1 (which happens multiple times daily, usually if not always when I'm trying to save), but I've also had Safari quit unexpectedly. I've been working with both Apple Care and the Adobe technical support and have found no solutions as of yet. Here are all of the things I've tried to date (and none have yet solved the problem):
- Emptied Cache and Cookies folders
- Run Repair Disk Permissions & Verify Disk
- Re-installed Adobe Photoshop Elements
- Created a new user account and tried running the program from within there
- Booted up the computer in safe mode and run the program (still quit unexpectedly)
Was being helped by Apple Care once again and they were going to have me re-install Max OS X, but the guy suggested I post here first for advice.
I do have the option of upgrading to Max OS X Leopard, but didn't want to complicate things (although maybe they'd improve).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Definitely not a tech wiz, but do understand a bit.
Thanks for reading this...

Welcome to the Forums
Did you run Repair Disk from your Install Disc? Boot holding down the C Key
From the Installer Menu select Utilities>Disk Utility>Repair Disk..Reboot
Then..Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility>Repair Disk Permissions.

Trouble with connecting to an App and restoring In App Purchases

I am having trouble with restoring my in app purchases. I had purchased the full season for crazy night out a while back but when I got the app again after restoring the app the full season wasn't on and it is trying to charge me for it. I had also bought the fantasy date app and the multipacks and unlike crazy night out it recognizes I made the purchase but when I click restore purchases or buy pack it won't download and it says can not connect to server and for me to check my settings and try again also for the ones I do have that were free when I click play or download all videos it says it can't connect to servers and the videos don't play. Is there anything I can do to retrieve these purchases back and get the videos to play.
It's not the Internet everything else works.

ftp doesn't work well in modern network environments, and the design of the protocol itself is basically incompatible with the inclusion of firewalls in modern networks. And it transmits the authentication credentials in cleartext.
Put another way, see if ssh and particularly sftp works here (either directly via the sftp command, or via a sftp GUI tool) works for your requirements.
Failing that, [here is ftp set-up information|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/942].
If it's the DNS set-up, then here is some [DNS server set-up information|http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1436]. And your Mac OS X client will need to have access to the same DNS information your server is using.

Trouble with Time Machine (runs constantly). Erase and install?

Trouble with Time Machine (runs constantly). Tried re-installation (equivalent of archive install) of Snow Leopard. Time Machine still unable to complete a back-up. Erase and install recommended at Genius Bar. Have backed up data to external HD using Super Duper. Should be a bootable backup. Last successful backup through Time Machine was 6/1/11. Not sure if I can access this back-up if I erase and re-install.
Computer shipped with Tiger (7/2007). Have original disks. Now running Snow Leopard. So: erase HD, install Tiger, then update to Snow Leopard? Start-up from Tiger disks does not appear to work (starting up holding "C" key). Suggestions? Want very much to transfer data to new iMac, but do not want to carry bugs forward. Very nervous about erasing HD. And have the questions above about reinstalling system software.
Advice desired! Thanks.

Well if you can hold option and boot off the Superdupes clone and it works fine then you should be set to do what you need to do to the original boot drive.
Disconnect all drives and c boot off the Snow Leopard install disk, use Disk Utility to Erase > format HFS+ journaled your internal boot drive.
Quit and reinstall OS X Snow Leopard, setup (do not use Setup/Migration Assitant!) and update to 10.6.8
When you setup the new install, use the same hard drive name and user name as you did before.
Now the free iLife that came on the Tiger disks you won't get naturally, but you can pick them off the disk with the shareware program called Pacifist.
install your programs from fresh sources, this way you don't get the "crap" from the older setup.
Once your machine is up and going. Hook up the clone and transfer your user folders over manually. With iTunes just replace the whole folder. Because you kept the same user and boot drive name as before, the playlists should be fine.
Once your all peachy, take the opportunity to clone this new setup to a external drive, label and disconnect.
Make another clone for day to day, or week to week clone updates and your just a hold option boot away for recovery.
You know Superdupes and Carbon Copy Cloner both have auto-scedualing/updating ability, so you can leave them plugged in and it will perform a update so your clone stays fresh and recent.
But you should keep a clone timed back about a couple of weeks back just in case you install something bad and don't learn about it right away.

Trouble with Time Machine/Time Capsule try Backup instead

Trouble with Time Machine preparing to download taking hogging your system followed by errors that don't make any sense even if you look at the console logs to try to figure out. Try Backup instead.
Find the software here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/backup312.html
It allows you to configure when to do back ups and specific data you want, and includes templates for configurations to make it easy. The only catch is you loose the Time Machine benefits of restoring an individual file easily. For me it gets around the issues w/ Time Machine hogging my system resources (Finder at 98% CPU cycles both cores) while "preparing backup", followed by strange failures that can't figure out, followed by more "preparing backup".

I was running backup instead of time machine until I saw snow leopard had time machine improvements. I'm very happy with the performance so far w/ snow leopard (OS X 10.6) time machine performance.

Leopard, DNS trouble with CNAMES

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for