Tsunas blog: How to disable Bonjour on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard – StumbleUpon

Tsunas blog: How to disable Bonjour on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard – StumbleUpon. This would be something to add to a list of performance enhancements or to extend battery time on laptops.

Apple’s KB explains how to properly disable those broadcast advertisements:

1. sudo vim /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
2. Add<string>-NoMulticastAdvertisements</string>at the end of theProgramArgumentsarray.
3. Save the file
4. RestartmDNSResponder:
   sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

There’s no need to reboot unlike what the KB says, as you long as you restart mDNSResponder.