Error 2002f

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Hello, people of the community.

Not really used to forum, please forgive possible "Non respect of the rules"

Just wanted to share my recent experience on the subject.

I have a Mac mini able to run Monterey, but impossible to put it back.

Always came down to this 2002f error.

I was connected through Wi-Fi

Simple Ethernet connection took care of the issue.

For some reason it did not work at all through Wi-Fi.

I found this trick with your help, thus my feedback on this.

You guys take care.

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Oct 7, 2024 4:11 AM

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2002f is a DNS issue...

error "2002f" was reported when i had DHCP forwarder enabled on the router.

the solution was simple:

1 - I had to set the static DNS servers to google's DNS IP addresses instead of openDNS.

2 - I Had to enable "DNSmasq for DHCP" & "DNSmasq for DNS"

The recovery worked as expected it took around 20 minutes to download the initial recovery utility, then another 4 Hours to download OSX lion.

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Answer 2

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