A server with the same hostname could not be found!

Question

Hi macusers,
I saw that error on multiple threads but I found none related to my issue. So, before ignore it let's describe it:
Two MAC Mini: one early 2009 and second late 2010. Both OS 10.9.1, MacKeeper installed, 6+Gb for RAM. Both uses the same router to connect the internet. Both are LAN connected not WiFi. I even changed the DNS addresses on router using Google DNS.
On Mac 2009:
1. Safari opens pages randomly. Sometimes a website is not open but when I create a new tab and select the website from bookmarks the website is opened while in previous tab still says: Safari cannot find the server .... All those websites are used in my daily work. I am not reseting Safari unless necesary.
2. MAIL is showing online only Gmail acccount from 4 accounts. The rest of the accounts are not Gmail and appear as Offline. I restart MAIL and they appear online. I have to do that Open/Close MAIL several times a day.
3. Sharefile and oDesk Team application cannot be opened because of that error: A server with the same hostname could not be found!
4. Apple Store is displaying questions marks instead of the icons and I can barely see what softwares I have installed.
Now the beauty. Only on MAC 2009 I am experiencing those issues. The other MAC is fine. So far.
What I tried so far:
A. Reboot in SafeMode and Repair Permissions, Repair Disk. Everything OK.
B. PRAM Reset and SMC Reset.
C. Scan for viruses. No virus detected.
oDesk Team app is working fine on the other MAC and I managed to install it on Mac 2009 on Windows 7 partition as well. Is working fine.
Here are some screenshots showing you some of the errors I am picking on my side.
That one is taken while trying to connect to ShareFile. After three or four attempts it finally managed to connect.
That was a beauty. While MacKeeper was showing me that I am Offline, I was talking on Skype with a friend.
Still cannot access oDesk Team application. However, after several attempts it is logging but what is showing me is a real nightmare.
If I choose to see my contracts (though in the upper corner there is not my account) they do appear:
Any valuable entry will be highly appreciate it.
Warm regards,
Sebastian
P.S. I just remembered that I saw on a post in here related to the same error that someone from Apple asked a guy to make a test in terminal using a command line. I do it on my MAC and here is the result:
Message was edited by: sebdea

Answer 1

Hi Grant,
Here is what I did and so far seems it is wworking.
1. I deleted oDesk and ShareFile. I removed them using MacKeeper (I found this application very usefull for uninstalling applications as MacKeeper looks for them all over the computer: cache, preferences, application support etc.) While for oDesk is simple as I can look myself for oDesk in any file names, whith ShareFile was a little tricky to amke it amnually as MacKeeper find files that contain Citrix name then ShareFile. I will not guess unless I would search the internet on how to manually remove sharefile from my system.
2. I manually delete all cahe files and folders from ~Library and ~User/Library.
3. After reboot I installed Onyx and order maintanance where I checked all its options, including but not limited to DNS caches, fonts caches, everything.
4. After I reboot computer, I went in Disk Utility and Repaired permissions.
Reboot again. Now seems to work fine. At least odesk Team is working properly. I will have a second thought for installing ShareFile.
Some romanian mac users suggested to check my router connectivity and change some DNS in it. Looks like that was also a problem on some MACs. I recall the few weeks ago I had an issue with TP Link router. My computer wasn't connected to internet, though router showed that there is internet connection. I ping router from my computer and I received answer from ping. I ping google from computer, nothing. I ping google from router, was wroking. I connected the computer directly to internet without router, was wroking. When connected back through router, nothing. I contacted the guys from TP Link and they suggested to use google DNS instead of those my ISP provided. But since then I had not experienced any issue with router and internet, until now. The DNS are still those from google.
I will keep you updated if any issues are appear again. So far, it is working perfectly as it supposed to work.
Warm regards,
Sebastian