Re: disabling Bonjour

Subject: Re: disabling Bonjour
From: Marc Krochmal <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:57:12 -0700
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Hi Jim,

Since adding Bonjour support to our app a number of customers have asked for a way to turn it off (e.g. because they have lots of machines on a bridged network and don't like seeing all those names). Having every Bonjour-supporting app add a preference to turn Bonjour off seems inefficient -- what these people really want is a way to turn Bonjour off on a system-wide or network-wide basis.

The current recommendation is that each application add a checkbox to enable/disable Bonjour for their application as needed. Of course, we would prefer that applications not do this in the spirit of zero- configuration, but each application has different needs. I realize how this could be a problem in Fetch since you add the Bonjour discovered services to the Shortcuts menu, so you may want to think about splitting these into two separate menus, and that way people may not feel the need to disable Bonjour because it's cluttering up their shortcuts.

I know that I would be upset if an application disabled Bonjour for the entire system, and then I was no longer able to print to my Bonjour shared printer or use iTunes Music Sharing.

Is there some official Apple webpage that would tell them how to disable Bonjour on their systems or networks?

I don't believe there's an "official" way to disable Bonjour, however, starting in Tiger, typing the following as root in the Terminal will disable the mDNSResponder process, but I would avoid telling this to customers since it could cause unforeseen problems.

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

Best Regards,

-Marc
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