Safari Cannot Connect to Server (Google)

This is driving me crazy. On my MacBook, Safari has stopped accessing ANY Google or Google-related site. I've done all the usual things like reinstalling Safari, clearing caches, resetting DNS, checking firewall etc, but absolutely nothing works.


Any other ideas?

MacBook

Posted on Feb 25, 2020 03:37 PM

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Feb 25, 2020 03:47 PM in response to FrustratedWomble

What’s the text of the error message being received when attempting to connect to Google services?

What does a traceroute show for the failure? (Don’t post the output here, but see how many hops you get...)

Any add-on anti-malware, add-on anti-cirus, add-on cleaners, add-on VPN clients, or add-on firewalls in use here?

Rebooted your router?

See if DuckDuckGo is working, as an alternative to Google search?

Feb 25, 2020 04:25 PM in response to MrHoffman

Many thanks for this - I've just managed to solve it.


I have Little Snitch installed and thought I had already checked it, but it turns out I didn't check it properly. I was checking the Google configurations and not the Safari configurations where there was a rule to block all connections to Google. So I deactivated that and created a new rule to allow connections to Google and everything works just fine now.


Thanks again for your help.

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