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Failed To Download Update / Could not contact primary server

This morning, the Sophos icon displayed an X in the center of the shield but wasn't grayed out, and the first entry on the menu was a grayed out "Failed To Download Update".  Choosing "Update Now" causes the Sophos AutoUpdate Status window to open, briefly display the "downloading" bar, then end with "Could not contact primary server" and "Authentication Error" followed by the date and time.  Looking into the console, I see that early this morning there were a number of messages regarding Sophos, almost all of them along the following lines: "3/19/15 7:28:22.685 AM SophosSXLD[137]: [SMESXLInterface.m:437] no DNS addresses found", and similar messages appear to go back to at least March 13.

Is there a problem with the Sophos server, and if so what's the prognosis?  Or is it something with my computer, and if so what should I do?  I'm running Sophos Home Edition 9.2.4 (Threat detection engine 3.58.1, Threat data 5.12) on a Mac running OSX 10.9.5.

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  • Hi! It's still not working for me. :(

    These are the results I got from pinging and dig:

    ping dci.sophosupd.com

    PING a334.g.akamai.net (111.68.59.48): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 111.68.59.48: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=15.789 ms

    ping d1.sophosupd.com

    PING sophos.vo.llnwd.net (203.77.188.254): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 203.77.188.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=74.988 ms

    ping d2.sophosupd.com

    PING sophos.vo.llnwd.net (203.77.188.254): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 203.77.188.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=75.387 ms

    +++

    <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> dci.sophosupd.com

    ;; global options: +cmd

    ;; Got answer:

    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42904

    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:

    ;dci.sophosupd.com. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:

    dci.sophosupd.com. 32 IN CNAME dci.sophosupd.com.edgesuite.net.

    dci.sophosupd.com.edgesuite.net. 2330 IN CNAME a334.g.akamai.net.

    a334.g.akamai.net. 4 IN A 111.68.59.34

    a334.g.akamai.net. 4 IN A 111.68.59.48

    ;; Query time: 43 msec

    ;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1)

    +++

    I do not understand what any of these means :(

    I am running Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition 9.2.2 on OSX Yosemite 10.2.2.

    Please help?

    :1020506
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  • Hi! It's still not working for me. :(

    These are the results I got from pinging and dig:

    ping dci.sophosupd.com

    PING a334.g.akamai.net (111.68.59.48): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 111.68.59.48: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=15.789 ms

    ping d1.sophosupd.com

    PING sophos.vo.llnwd.net (203.77.188.254): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 203.77.188.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=74.988 ms

    ping d2.sophosupd.com

    PING sophos.vo.llnwd.net (203.77.188.254): 56 data bytes

    64 bytes from 203.77.188.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=75.387 ms

    +++

    <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> dci.sophosupd.com

    ;; global options: +cmd

    ;; Got answer:

    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42904

    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:

    ;dci.sophosupd.com. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:

    dci.sophosupd.com. 32 IN CNAME dci.sophosupd.com.edgesuite.net.

    dci.sophosupd.com.edgesuite.net. 2330 IN CNAME a334.g.akamai.net.

    a334.g.akamai.net. 4 IN A 111.68.59.34

    a334.g.akamai.net. 4 IN A 111.68.59.48

    ;; Query time: 43 msec

    ;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1)

    +++

    I do not understand what any of these means :(

    I am running Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition 9.2.2 on OSX Yosemite 10.2.2.

    Please help?

    :1020506
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