"You are not connected to the internet" message
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Want to highlight a helpful answer? Upvote!
Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others! Learn more about when to upvote >
Did someone help you, or did an answer or User Tip resolve your issue? Upvote by selecting the upvote arrow. Your feedback helps others! Learn more about when to upvote >
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
I have this issue too, and for years. Frustratingly, usually when using websites with short timeouts for tax or other things.
Repairing permissions won't do anything either; That only serves to waste time and start the "timer" again.
What's happening is Apple, in trying to create the ultimate consumer user experience, connects to certain Apple servers via the internet to verify it can get updates and send metadata back to Apple. If this connection doesn't happen instantly, the framework which underlies this, and Mail and other internet-related Apple software, throws an error and interrupts the user, to get YOU to hurry up and get onto a connection that will allow your computer to contact Apple.
Mozilla, ssh, terminal, other non-Apple software will continue to work, as they don't call-home to see if you can get an update before connecting to your toaster, or log into a router to change something.
How to switch this off for real, I'll never know. We found this when blocking all apple domains on a security device at our network edge, and watched the myriad of odd un-solicited traffic. Sure enough, "You're not connected to the internet" -and we certainly are.
Sorry this offers no solution, and is a trite condescending, but it's the fact of the consumerised product that is now.. the Mac, and the rush to 'contain' product owners by vendors.
Joseph Lockett wrote:
I have the same problem; if I leave the computer on long enough (usually asleep overnight), when I wake it up, Safari will present the "You are not connected to the Internet" message for any page, and Mail will display the exclamation-point-in-a-triangle for all accounts that says it's offline. Yes, Software Update also complains of a "network problem."
Just wanted to add my voice to those wondering about this issue and its resolution. I regularly end up in this situation where specific programs (most notably Safari) think I am "not connected to the Internet" when clearly I am connected. I tried the Repair Permissions answer to no avail. Seemed like a promising approach and would explain why some applications were affected while others were not, but again, didn't work for me. In the past, I believe rebooting my machine makes things happy again, but gosh that's a disruptive answer.
Fwiw, this happens on my main development iMac which regularly stays up for weeks at a time (minus sleeping nightly).
"You are not connected to the internet" message