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Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Adey J — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:20:57 -0000

pro-tip; disabling your DNS is not a good idea. The name of the file gives you a clue not to touch it. You're welcome.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Shaun — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:22:56 -0000

See above

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

jamz3243 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:49:28 -0000

bonjour will allow them to see you w/o having to really find you. but if your worried about them hcking into your computer you should make sure your firewall is turned on and you don't ssh, vnc, webshareing, etc. enabled.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

jamz3243 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:47:44 -0000

so then it wasn't sudo that messed up your connection on your computer, your router was the issue.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

dudester — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:05:34 -0000

That sudo command on 10.7.4 on macbook early 2012 killed my internet connection. Working with Apple Connection specialist, completely restoring (using the reset button/Airport Utility) my Apple Extreme router did the trick.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Anon — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:50:36 -0000

I used this tip on 10.5.8 and suddenly iTunes crashed on launch. Turning mDNSResponder allowed iTunes to launch again.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Shannon Thrasher — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:24:02 -0000

I turned off airport and almost instantly mDNSResponder was quiet again. I am also plugged in via Ethernet could using both be causing my problem?

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Kindasport — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:33:47 -0000

damn! indeed. it doesent work for osx 10.6.x i can't belive there is no way to simply turn of the notifications..
http://support.apple.com/kb...

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

karbassi — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0000

Cliffnoble,

They will not be able to change any of your computer settings without
having your computer password or access to your computer.

Note: This doesn't mean that it's not possible. Viruses, worms, and
backdoors are always possible, but very rare in the OS X operating
system.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Cliffnoble — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:38:22 -0000

If I am using someone else's wireless network, with their password, will having Bonour "on" allow them to get into my computer and change firewall settings or access my computer in general?

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

nobody — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:52:28 -0000

sounds like a apple is clearly monitoring people using their software... and they are "punishing" people who won't allow them to.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

jaqkar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:31:57 -0000

Will not work for Snow Leopard: http://support.apple.com/kb...

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

dsfh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:26:07 -0000

snow leopard doesent work!

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Patty — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:37:25 -0000

After I typed in my password and hit enter, it tells me "Error unloading: com.apple.mDNSResponder. I did the process over again and got the same error message. Any suggestions?

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

247 Comp ltd — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:54:25 -0000

On windows XP the best option to remove it, is go C:\program files\bonjour and remove two files, but first you will need to STOP THE SEERVICE to do that you will need to run: Start-> Control Panel ->Administrative Tools-> Services and now you need to locate something like: "##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_42_BC_5BB94B9762##" (not exactly that string but looks very simmilar) and now right click on the string next click STOP
If you got troubles set startup type as disabled-> restart the machine and remove folder bonjour actually you will need to remove two files in that folder:
mdnsNSP.dll and mDNSResponder.exe

Rafael Kubik http://www.247comp.co.uk

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Ali Karbassi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:56:02 -0000

Eric, for security reasons the terminal will not show you typing in your password. Just type it in anyway and press enter. If it's incorrect, it will tell you so.

Best of luck.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:44:24 -0000

I typed in the command line in the terminal and it asks me for my password. The problem is that it won't let me type anything. What should I do?

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

CADAM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:07:32 -0000

The problem is that fact that Bonjour is always broadcasting and using .local domain setting. This is typically the internal deisgnation for a LDAP server (Windows Active Directoy). So the MAC can become confused when joined to the Windoew AD.
Besides, why would you want a bunch of chater on your network telling everyone else what you are running. Bonjour may be an ease of configuration thing, but it is a huge step backwards. AppleTalk anyone?

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Derek S — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:48:24 -0000

Oh, sorry . . .

OSX 10.5.4, Safari 3.1.2

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Derek S — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:46:32 -0000

Turning off mDNS also kills Safari, which sits and does nothing - no rainbow beachball, no errors, just . . . nothing. I had to turn it back on.

Beware!

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Alex J. Avriette — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:40:02 -0000

You're not exactly qualifying what "going nuts" means, and you're not explaining how exactly this "fix" of yours actually fixes anything. All you've done is suggest to the internet that people can solve vaguely defined problems by pulling daemons out of Apple's boot process and the normal running of the OS.

I've personally run zeroconf/rendezvous/bonjour on networks of many thousands of machines, and it's never been an issue. What you may be seeing is a misconfiguration elsewhere that has mdnsresponder behaving poorly.

And the fellow complaining about syslogd also going crazy: consider that randomly fiddling with daemons might just cause another daemon (do you know how many of Apple's daemons actually use mdns?), like, say, Apache, to complain loudly (yes, I am aware apache has its own log files).

Simply using the terms "going nuts" and "going crazy" to describe the justification for people randomly coming across this page on the internet and issuing commands as the superuser. I personally think you're instructing people here to play with fire, and it's irresponsible.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Paul W — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:05:43 -0000

Been going out of my mind for weeks with this issue. Could bind the Mac to AD (eventually, after about 30 mins!).

Then couldn't log in with any AD account - the shakes. Then went to log back in as root, took about 15 mins to log in every time :-( Never had this problem with Tiger.

Turned off Bonjour, as per above advice, and BINGO! AD login for first time ever, and fast. Thanks a million!

Running over a massive corporate global network btw. 99.9999% PCs though.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Micael — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:18:54 -0000

It will restart on the next reboot.

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Micael — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:16:42 -0000

windows® users can end the Bonjour (mDNSResponder) process through the Task Manager(Ctrl-Alt-Del).

Re: Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

Bob — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:28:10 -0000

has anyone a workaround for the extensis suitcase issue? so if you kill the mdnsresponder, suitcase is not opening anymore. somebody mentioned before.

any ideas?