Multicast Domain Name Service is a method for using traditional domain name services without a central DNS authority, or DNS lookup server.
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system.log is flooded with mDNSResponder messages: “queryrecord_result_callback:…”
My Mac is constantly writing the same following error message to system.log:
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Feb 18 15:24:21 MBA mDNSResponder[51]: queryrecord_result_callback: mDNS_Lock: Locking failure! mDNS_busy (1) != ...
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What is the preferred method of command line domain name lookup (DNS)?
What command line command do I use to lookup a domain address?
When looking at the man pages for nslookup and dig I can see a section saying that these utilities do not use the Mac OS methods of ...
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how to track the pid of a process using mDNSResponder?
I'm searching the right way to identify which pid/process ask to mDNSResponder to resolve dns query.
In other terms I want do identify which process do which dns query through mDNSResponder and in ...
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ping and browsers do not seem to use local DNS server? (or: mDNSResponder looses local dns server?)
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DNS Server
CentOS 5.6 64bit running dnsmasq 2.45 on IP 10.9.8.2.
Serving as DNS-Only Server using it's local /etc/hosts. /etc/resolv.conf on this machine has
Router
Draytek ...
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Can I use Back To My Mac's mDNS address and for ssh and other routing of traffic?
On Lion and iCloud, the old MobileMe and Snow Leopard mDNS naming has changed and no longer works.
I'm wondering how to use command line tools to find out the DNS name that Apple has assigned to my ...
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Is it possible to use Back To My Mac DNS or routing information from the command line?
I often want to ssh to a Mac and would love to make use of of MobileMe to look up IP/DNS routing information.
Let's assume of my on-all-the-time Mac at home's hostname is "maui" and it's running Snow ...
