mDNSResponder causing network issues?

About a week after installing Yosemite beta 5 I noticed a huge issue on my computer. I woke my computer at the start of the day an I was having trouble loading anything except for websites on Chrome. All of my network services would think they were connected but would just never load. For instance, I would load a website and it would just try to load for a few minutes before timing out. It seemed like a DNS issue, but after trying other DNS servers, I did some research. I finally found that other people (not from previous system versions as well) were citing an issue with the "mDNSResponder.plist" file, located at: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist. Some said to unload and reload the file, others said to delete (in which case it won't rebuild and therefore has issues with Bonjour), and others said to restore that file from a previous TM backup. I tried all of those solutions, I was finally able to get some network functionality after loading and reloading the file.


Now, my network services are back and I've had less of an issue in beta 6, but I'm still getting the attached message every time my computer is NOT connected to a network.

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It just keeps counting up for ever, until I'm connected to a network this will never go away (unless I unload the .plist file). Is this just a bug? Any way to fix this issue that anyone knows of?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 2.6 GHz - 16 RAM / 512GB SSD

Posted on Aug 21, 2014 9:25 AM

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Aug 21, 2014 9:39 AM in response to msuper69

I've done that already, and I'm not discussing the beta software or reporting a bug. If you read my post, the solutions I've used thus far have been from previous OS X versions. I believe this issue is completely unrelated to the beta. I suppose I can post under a different version of OS X. I was just indicating the version I was using because I figured that may be helpful information should someone have a solution.

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