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10.4: How to disable Bonjour
Authored by: kidventus on Jul 18, '05 10:12:17PM

It's best to think of Bonjour as webservices.. not a network protocol per'se. It broadcasts it's identity to the network for specific services only. There is no way you can get a shell prompt from a Bonjour hack :-P

I also have to scream no on this. Bonjour connects you with Airports, Airport Expresses, AirTunes, Printing through an Airport Express with auto discovery.. not to mention sharing iTunes music, calendars, address books, ect.

* whew *

There is a reason why it's hard to disable.. there is no reason.. it's not chatty.. it's not insecure.. and every application can disable it's service's "announcement". Most traffic (iTunes, Printing) is even encrypted! The only thing you might want to worry about is your Airport Extremes and Expresses, since it uses Bonjour to configure them. Password protection is a must.

So chill.



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10.4: How to disable Bonjour
Authored by: marook on Jul 18, '05 11:59:02PM

Well, Bonjour is used to Discover the AirPort devices, not to configure them!
Configuration is done via SNMP. ;-)

Also, I would agree that Bonjour is not 'chatty', as it only Replies to Requests when other computers want to know what services is online.
The contrast here is AppleTalk that auto broadcast 'I am here' announcements each 20 sec or so.. now, that's where the 'chatty' issue comes from..

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/Marook



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