Comment by kps
4 years ago
Airgapped network — an IP LAN not connected to the internet. These do exist, sometimes permanently for security reasons, and sometimes just where external connectivity sucks but you still want your laptop to talk to your NAS.
The point stands: if you allow a host to resolve ocsp.apple.com to an unresponsive (timeout) address, it might break macOS the same as today — whether by air gap, by firewall, or who knows what else.
Agreed. These are really useful in various settings, but seem to be outside of most people's experience.