This is new to Mac OS X Tiger, and I am not liking it. I am lazy, I enter in urls in the form of just the name, so no .com, as I assume it will default to the .com. Enter “macupdate” or “macfixit” and you end up at domain registration pages. It seems to end up at http://macupdate and http://macfixit. I have no idea what is going on, tcpdump kind of shows me what Safari is up to, but why this behavior changed, I have no idea. I have seen it do other odd things as well, where I get a message that “there is no website configured at this address”, either way, it is new behavior, is not intuitive, and needs a fix.
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Ok, this is silly, but I figured it out, and using Apple Help no less! :-) Enter “.com” in the Search Domains field in TCP/IP settings. Seems this is important now, and was not important in pre Tiger.
Comment by Kurt Moore (admin) 06.07.05 @ 9:29 pmIf you enter nothing but a dot in the “Search domains” box, it works even better (because sometimes there’s a difference between “www.whatever.com” and “whatever.com” — the latter is what you’ll get with .com as the Search domain).
With a single dot, for some reason it forces the single-word host to be properly unfindable, and your browser will then see fit to add the “www.” and the “.com”.
Comment by Adam Schneider 10.31.05 @ 8:55 amLeave a comment
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