Apple finally fix the problems with Wi-Fi in OS X and iOS

The owners of some of the iPhone, and Mac computers, many buyers in the last year experienced great problems when using Wi-Fi. As it turned out, it was not due to technical problems or faults in the production. The main reason was the decision of Apple to change the software responsible for the DNS, in last year's releases of OS X and iOS.

Domain Name System (abbreviated DNS) - this is the so-called list of addresses of all sites on the Internet, thanks where users can quickly go to any page by typing a simple address on the top line browser. ISPs and some large corporations (eg, Google) have own the DNS-servers. Apple is also contained at the DNS servers. General works and the software was mDNSResponder.

With the OS X 10.10 Yosemite mDNSResponder was replaced by a new software called discoveryd. The exact causes of the transition from one software to another is still not known. There are opinions that this was done to implement in iOS AirDrop feature.

But for the past year because of the huge number of Mac users were not so interesting. Shifts led to the slow loading pages, malfunction AirDrop and many other problems with the connection of Wi-Fi.

Out of this situation Apple has found a very simple. IN First betas iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan by discoveryd completely abandoned, returned already familiar mDNSResponder. This does not mean that AirDrop or other functions that have appeared over the last year, no longer work. Most likely, Apple - after the failure of discoveryd and its inability to solve the problem even a few patches - decided to modify the old software and return it in an updated form in the new OS.

By the way, once the beta version of OS X Yosemite discoveryd also replaced by mDNSResponder, so that the normal Wi-Fi access will not have to wait until the release of OS X El Capitan.

Any comments about this Apple representatives declined to give.

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