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Re: [Fed-Talk] OS X chatting with DNS server via port 5353

It uses that port to send your Encrypted Disk Image keys to other servers as of 10.4.9. 

(JUST KIDDING!  Since I have been so paranoid thought I would through that in).


On 3/15/07, Michael <email@hidden> wrote:
Why does OS X continually chat with your DNS server via port 5353?

I have verified that this is not DNS lookups, i.e. I lose no
functionally when I block this traffic; however, depending on how
this traffic is blocked my logs fill up with different types of
messages.

I gather OS X is trying to advertise to the DNS server what services
it offers.  This is something that should be possible to turn off
without creating megabytes of logs.

Michael

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