On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:41 -0500, Some Things wrote: > I see there's a new daemon in Fedora Core 3: mDNSResponder. > > The man page says: > The mDNSResponder daemon publishes and browses available services on a > link according to the IETF Zeronconf (aka "Rendezvous") draft standard. > Only one instance of mDNSResponder needs to run on a host. Once > started, mDNSResponder runs continuously > > And I see its part of the howl package. When I attempt to remove howl > I'm told gnome-vfs requires it. > > So I guess if I want Gnome I need to keep this daemon. > I'd rather not have another daemon hanging around. You can at least stop it running: # service mDNSResponder stop # chkconfig mDNSResponder off Paul -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
