For those running Snow Leopard, don't disable Bonjour (multicast DNS) or you will kill unicast (regular) DNS lookups for programs like Safari! (unless Apple changes the behavior back, again).
To secure Bonjour, you can at least disable service advertisements:
Information Systems Security Manager CSC @ Alabama Supercomputer Program
On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Jerry L. Blackmon II wrote:
Leopard, 10.5.6. Should have mentioned that, haha.
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From: Allan Marcus <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:20:58 -0600
To: Blackmon Jerry <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] FYI on disabling bonjour and its affect on the Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suites
What version of the OS?
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Thanks,
Allan Marcus
505-667-5666
On Oct 23, 2009, at 5:08 AM, Jerry L. Blackmon II wrote:
> Mac folk,
>
> Recently I posted an inquiry regarding –72000 and “Protection”
> errors, and applications in the Final Cut Studio suite reporting
> serial number conflicts with machines that didn’t exist, since the
> machines reporting the errors were not connected to a network. I
> tracked the problem down to a package of security settings we apply
> here which disable bonjour, specifically the mDNSResponder.
> Disabling this seems to hobble the Final Cut suite, and it has an
> adverse affect on applications in the Adobe CS universe as well.
> Mysterious crashes, freezes, unexplained errors, etc. Nothing else
> seems to be affected by disabling bonjour at that level, but I
> figured I’d post for the record since others may run into similar
> issues given the ubiquity of this software.
>
> Hope this precludes anyone else from going through a similar month-
> long nightmare.
>
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> Jerry L. Blackmon II <email@hidden>
>
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Open Technology Group (Contractor)
> OITO, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
>
> "The more I learn about computers, the more I like my pencil." --
> Susan Katz
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