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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: mrwilly123 on Oct 09, '03 04:47:26PM

you cant do it using the gui, as the whole point of rendezvous is to be invisible. why would you want to turn it off anyways?

but if you are unsure about how to do the above hint:
go to applications>utilities>terminal and type the above text in and press enter.



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: lolopb on Oct 09, '03 05:37:27PM

Did you try to uncheck the Rendezvous box in /Applications/Utilities/Directory Access ?



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: kcamera on Oct 09, '03 07:25:39PM

I just tried that, and you hit the nail on the head. Unchecking Rendezvous in Directory Access effectively terminated the mDNSResponder, which if the main hint is accurate, should mean that Rendezvous is no longer running.

Thanks! I always like to know what is happening to the ones and zeros on my hard drive when I click buttons...



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: Mattbot on Oct 09, '03 10:13:23PM

This sounds a bit odd to me. I believe that the service plug-in check boxes in Directory Access were solely for accessing directory server information by those protocols, not administering the protocols themselves. For instance, unchecking NetInfo certainly does not shutdown NetInfo or you would be unable to login except in single user mode. Likewise you can run slapd with the LDAP plug-ins left unchecked.

I experimented a bit with this on my own. After unchecking Rendezvous in Directory Access I still see the mDNSResponder process running and remote machines could still ping me using my machine's .local address.

I am unaware of a means of controlling Rendezvous via the GUI but it would be welcome feature, particularly if it could allow the selective broadcasting of services (i.e. user a's website, but not user b's). Does anyone know if that's even directly possible with the Rendezvous?



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: kcamera on Oct 09, '03 07:22:25PM

I have no idea why I would want to do this, that's why I want to do it ;) Just for the sake of experimentation.

Perhaps I will get faster refreshing of the server list when connecting to remote services. I might save 1MB or so of memory, which is admittedly useless, but fun. I also don't fully understand Rendezvous, and until I do I'd rather it not be running (I'm a control freak, especially on my computer).

I'm actually a veteran Windows and UNIX user, and do some IT consulting on the side, so I know my way around a PC but am just starting to fiddle with the OSX platform...



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: archer823 on Oct 15, '03 04:09:31PM

Rendezvous and Multicast DNS in general causes a lot of network traffic, and if you don't need it, why bother generating the traffic?



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: paranoid on Nov 04, '03 04:45:37AM

There are a couple of good security reasons to turn Rendezvous off. If you're on an untrusted network (say the wireless LAN down at the local coffee shop), it might not be a good idea to broadcast what services you're running. Even if they're password protected, there may be as-yet unreleased security holes in them.

Conversely, if you're trying to sniff a network without cluttering it up, or if you don't want your presence detected, the periodic multicasts from Rendezvous will ruin your day.



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Turn Rendezvous on/off from the command line
Authored by: shideg on Nov 10, '03 02:06:24PM

Here's why I would disable it:

I manage Macs in computer labs in a college, and we don't want students printing to departmental printers that show up via Rendezvous, just the printers we define for each lab.

++Steve



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