VPN & Bonjour

So I'm posting in the server section because it is a question the server community would better understand.


I have an existing and only DNS server @ 192.168.1.250 (Windows based 😟)

The VPN network is 192.168.3.0/24.


Here is what I assume to be the stand queries when attempting to browse your local network,

192.168.3.102 -> 192.168.1.250 DNS 90 Standard query PTR b._dns-sd._udp.0.15.168.192.in-addr.arpa

192.168.3.102 -> 192.168.1.250 DNS 91 Standard query PTR db._dns-sd._udp.0.15.168.192.in-addr.arpa

192.168.3.102 -> 192.168.1.250 DNS 91 Standard query PTR dr._dns-sd._udp.0.15.168.192.in-addr.arpa

192.168.3.102 -> 192.168.1.250 DNS 89 Standard query PTR b._dns-sd._udp.0.3.168.192.in-addr.arpa

192.168.3.102 -> 192.168.1.250 DNS 89 Standard query PTR r._dns-sd._udp.0.3.168.192.in-addr.arpa

192.168.3.102 -> 192.168.1.250 DNS 90 Standard query PTR dr._dns-sd._udp.0.3.168.192.in-addr.arpa

192.168.1.250 -> 192.168.3.102 DNS 90 Standard query response, No such name

192.168.1.250 -> 192.168.3.102 DNS 91 Standard query response, No such name

192.168.1.250 -> 192.168.3.102 DNS 91 Standard query response, No such name

192.168.1.250 -> 192.168.3.102 DNS 89 Standard query response, No such name

192.168.1.250 -> 192.168.3.102 DNS 89 Standard query response, No such name

192.168.1.250 -> 192.168.3.102 DNS 90 Standard query response, No such name


Bonjour seeks DNS servers from the DNS server? Does this mean my existing server needs to be modified to support Bonjour? or ?


Any advice is apperciated!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 10, 2012 2:20 PM

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Mar 12, 2012 2:19 PM in response to sumarlidason

I believe that queries with the -sd suffix (as in, dns-sd) are service discovery queries. It looks like a Bonjour device is quqerying your DNS to see if it there are any service records it provides to be used by Bonjour. The fact that the server returns a "No such name" repsonse simply means the DNS server doesn't have any records to provide. This is no way prevents Bonjour from working on a local network. since it's multicast based and does not rely on any DNS server to discover other devices which may provide Bonjour-enabled services.

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