Comments on: How to disable Bonjour in Apple Mac OS X Tiger

By: robert

robert — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:50:52 +0000

when I paste the above referenced line I get the following response.

launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist) failed: -10
No such process

Also wondering why directory access has the bonjour checkbox ghost colored and cannot uncheck. I often see bonjour workaround in console when looking for stuff in my sys, thinking this just sucks that security on my mac has a flaw that may cause me problems. Any updates to this page or other way of disabling or blocking bonjour?

By: Felipe Alfaro Solana

Felipe Alfaro Solana — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:17:10 +0000

I never said that disabling Bonjour would not break anything

By: colin

colin — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:57:21 +0000

This breaks apple tv setup discovery

By: Jessica Lopez

Jessica Lopez — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:00:09 +0000

do you know how to enable it ? Please let me know?

By: Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez} » mDNSResponder errors on MacBook Pro

Tech.It.To.Me->{By.Anton.Perez} » mDNSResponder errors on MacBook Pro — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:16:48 +0000

[...] culprit: Apple’s Bonjour service. To disable it, here’s the complete how-to article, but the command you need to run [...]

By: Mac Interop: Networking | Concentrated Technology

Mac Interop: Networking | Concentrated Technology — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:53:07 +0000

[...] The only real caveat with Mac networking is Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous), a sort of plug-n-play protocol that relies on DNS trickery and broadcasts in order to advertise and locate network services, like iTunes’ Remote Speakers, Bonjour-enabled printers and network gateways, and more. You might not notice if this protocol is even running – it’s not as chatty as NetBIOS, although it serves a similar function – but you can turn it off, permanently, if you want to. Just open Terminal (it’s in the Utilities folder) and read this article. [...]

By: Crantall

Crantall — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:43:34 +0000

OK, this unload it from memory and disables it from autoload, great tip. But other daemons/services, have a “required” line in the plist file, so mDNSresponder is launched at restart anyway.
Is it posible to prevent this from happen?. Will this services that have this “dependency” run without it?
It’s not a critical issue for me, but it will be great to have more control over this service.
Thank you!!.

By: Felipe Alfaro Solana

Felipe Alfaro Solana — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:16:13 +0000

It’s highlighted for me (and I’ve checked on Safary, Opera and Firefox). Anyways, these are the two lines that are highlighted:

Disabled

By: Geir Aalberg

Geir Aalberg — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:53:46 +0000

Yup, the XML is readable, but nothing is highlighted

Exactly which lines are added to the file?

By: Felipe Alfaro Solana

Felipe Alfaro Solana — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:49:13 +0000

I quoted the XML, so it should work now

Thanks, Cailean!