Problem accessing www.apple.com

[hepaminondas]

Hi all,

 

I am having problems accessing www.apple.com and other related addresses.

I am inside a WLAN, but the problem has already manifested itself in other networks. My router is using OpenDNS.

My MBP is the only computer on the network having this problem.

 

From the NetworkUtility I ran some diagnostic tools, and got the following

 

traceroute www.apple.com

Traceroute has started ...

traceroute to   (127.0.0.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  localhost (127.0.0.1)  0.329 ms  0.041 ms  0.030 ms

 

 

ping www.apple.com

Ping has started ...

PING   (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.062 ms

---   ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.043/0.052/0.062/0.008 ms

 

But the address lookup doesn't show any problem

 

Lookup has started ...


; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> www.apple.com a
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44877
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.apple.com.            IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.apple.com.        678    IN    CNAME    www.apple.com.akadns.net.
www.apple.com.akadns.net. 54    IN    A    17.112.152.32

;; Query time: 56 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 14 11:24:54 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 85

 

 

The results with the direct IP address (17.112.152.32) were, however, positive.

I think that, somehow, the domain apple.com is associated with my local computer.

 

Any idea to what might be causing this, and how to fix it?

 

Miguel

[hepaminondas]

Just found the reason for this.

The following line in the /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 &nbsp www.apple.com

No idea how it got there...