August 2011
2 posts
Snow Leopard DNS fix
Sometimes when I wake up my work MacBook Air running Snow Leopard, DNS is broken. I can go to a terminal window and ping things by name, but neither Chrome nor Safari can resolve any DNS names. I figured out you can just kill off mDNSResponder and it will respawn itself and DNS will be working again. Like this:
sudo killall mDNSResponder
It happens enough that I wrote it into a little app....
Mac OS X Lion Audio Fix
After I upgraded my 2011 MacBook Pro to Lion, I started having audio problems when either plugging or unplugging headphones. Audio just stops working and won’t come back until I reboot. I figured out that you can just kill coreaudiod to bring audio back. I happens to me enough that I created an app to fix the problem so I can just put it in the dock. You can download the app,...
