This is driving me nuts and has done for years through several major versions of macOS. It happens all the time. Weekly at least. I wake the computer and go to use the internet but nothing loads. Try "google.co.uk" for example and Safari's loading progress bar goes to about 10% across (the position you will all know as "not loading") and eventually times out.
This even persists through a reboot. The only thing that seems to fix it is to delete the current "location" in `Sys Prefs -> Network` and create a new one. Instantly fixed.
The weird thing though is that while it's in that broken state, my VPN will connect just fine and then pages load. So obviously, there's a connection (as seen from the green dot beside Ethernet and WiFi, plus IP addresses for both. Is this some sort of DNS issue then?
Has anyone else experienced this and is there a permanent solution? I'm reasonably sure I've done a fresh install of macOS a few times over the past few years this has been happening so I don't think it's a dodgy install.
This even persists through a reboot. The only thing that seems to fix it is to delete the current "location" in `Sys Prefs -> Network` and create a new one. Instantly fixed.
The weird thing though is that while it's in that broken state, my VPN will connect just fine and then pages load. So obviously, there's a connection (as seen from the green dot beside Ethernet and WiFi, plus IP addresses for both. Is this some sort of DNS issue then?
Has anyone else experienced this and is there a permanent solution? I'm reasonably sure I've done a fresh install of macOS a few times over the past few years this has been happening so I don't think it's a dodgy install.
