What does this mean "apsd wants to connect to 1.courier-sandbox-push-apple.com.akadns.net"

I'm sitting here showing my elderly mother how to find information on the internet if I'm not around and she can't get ahold of me for some reason, and your response is the perfect example of how NOT to respond towards people less educated then yourself about such things.

I've never understood the need for some people in my field to behave in the manner that you did there when being asked a technical question. Once upon a time you didn't know the answer to the same type of question either.

Linc Davis wrote:

It means that "LittleSnitch" is interfering with the normal operation of your system and wasting your time with useless information.

Speaking of wasting people's time with useless information, what an arrogant and unhelpful response. Why even bother replying at all if you're not even going to address the actual question? Does it make you feel powerful to make someone feel like an idiot for using software you don't happen to like?

Your snarky "advice" is ignorant and dangerous.

I'm a full-time software engineer. I wrote a book about Xcode. I telework for a government job and run my own software shop. Security of my primary development system (and my file server) is absolutely critical. So I use Little Snitch to monitor and control outbound connections. If, in this day and age, you don't see the value in such a software product, the person asking about it isn't the idiot here. Since you clearly need it, let me educate you.

1 - Many apps "phone home" these days. Do you trust them to? Do they need to? What about apps that came from the App Store but don't use any online service, like maybe a random password generator? Sure, these apps need to validate their receipts but that's an Apple / Mac OS process readily identified by Little Snitch. But why would this random password generator app insist on contacting the developer's server (or, even more frightening, some unnamed IP address)? Wouldn't that knowledge be really g*******d salient to any user who doesn't have their head up their ***?

2 - Since it seems every app wants to do something on the Internet these days, the amount of network traffic from just one computer is alarming. Now consider tethering a laptop to your iPhone during a business trip. Consider that, normally, you don't need an unlimited data plan on that iPhone (because you work from home) 350 days out of a given year. What happens when you get to your destination, set up your stuff, connect your laptop via your iPhone to the Internet, and all those apps (including iCloud related stuff) gleefully transfer s***-tons of data the moment they see a route home, whether they need to or not? "Hey, it's just a little data," say the developers. "Sure, it's way more information than I actually need for this request but it's not that much..." Except when they all do that, the result can easily be (and it has been for me) a message from AT&T telling me I just chewed through a GB of data in less than 30 minutes. Whoops. Wouldn't it be great if there were some app that let you set specific rule sets for specific networks? Yeah, you guessed it: Little Snitch. When tethered to my iPhone, Little Snitch automatically switches to my "SHUT THE **** UP" profile, which essentially denies all but (what I deem) the most critical processes any network access. It's also handy for public WiFi. Have an e-mail service that doesn't support secure connections? How about disallowing Mail that particular connection on untrusted networks is pretty useful, don't you think?

Of course you know better, Linc Davis, so please advise. Should I trust every third-party developer? Should I stop paying my mortgage so I can pay my wireless bill instead? Should I let that password generator app connect to hacked-imperialist-swine.data-collector.kimfamilyphotos.kp every time I generate a password because you're sure it's fine?

I have no idea why you're ranked so highly in this forum considering both how almost-purposefully-unhelpful your response was and how uninformed about basic information security you demonstrated yourself to be. I guess anybody can be designated "well informed" if they sound condescending enough. Hey, maybe this post will shoot me up into the ranks!

> It means that "LittleSnitch" is interfering with the normal operation of your system and wasting your time with useless information.

This advice is horrible. Just because you don't understand why someone would want to run a firewall for outbound connections doesn't mean that there isn't value in doing so.

Not a very helpful response. I came here looking for the same thing (also as a major user of little snitch) and you appear to be simply annoyed with people having asked the question.

Why do people waste time *replying* to these questions if they dislike them having been asked?

@freddobonanzaI noticed Safari giving me issues without Little Snitch loaded, though this thread has given me some extra help in determing why the behaviour is there to begin with.

Piling onto the rebuke for @Linc Davis - add to the conversation don't take away from it - the reason I am having the same issue is due to issues our coporate proxy is gving us. I have allowed apsd full acess to the internet through Little Snitch, however when our proxy decies to expire the authentication for the logged in user various apps like Safari decide to timeout and lockup. I suspect apsd but am still looking into it.

FYI we use NTLM on windows for authenticate against the proxy so the Mac users must manually login via browser - which creates issues for some processes that don't use cookies. Ergo same boat, different issue.

So in the end we've learned that apsd must have net access or it can cause Safari to lock up.

I solved the problem by doing this:

Safari.app >Preferences>Notification> uncheck "Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications"

Cheers!

I realize i am chiming in here many months later, but as I happened upon this thread via a google search of apsd of my own issue (gave a numerical I.P. instead) it's still relevant. So thanks for all the helpful posts here as it is beneficial for others later on looking for answers of our own. My own 2 cents to add would be, although some like Linc may not see the value in Little Snitch, I personally found the first evidence of a virus on my mac (first ever) because of a LS dialog. It pays to be curious about what's going on with your machine.

@ "I have no idea why you're ranked so highly in this forum considering.....

Linc has helped hundreds and hundreds of forum members solve their Apple hardware and software problems over the years. But don't expect coddling and hand holding...he maximizes his time on the forums with short and to-the-point answers...some might even consider his answers curt (or horrors, rude) but I've rarely seen one any knowledgable Apple tech would disagree agree with.

I have used Little Snitch for years and consider it to be one of the most helpful apps I have. Yes, I do want to know what information is outgoing on my computer and to be able to control what apps or processes are using the Internet. I am not a programmer, but I do have a small business and security is important to me. The network monitor is brilliant and good information is never pointless. If I don't know what something is, I sure as heck don't want it sending data to parts unknown. Along with virus protection and a firewall, Little Snitch is an essential in my opinion.

Linc Davis wrote:

Your first question has already been answered. The second question should be answered by the developers of "LittleSnitch." If you want normal performance, get rid of it.

Wow, that is some **** advice. From somebody that supposed to be Level 10

But then again, that is typical (IMO) Apple user that knows very little, but thinks otherwise and tries to convince everybody about it

> It means that "LittleSnitch" is interfering with the normal operation of your system and wasting your time with useless information.

Since you trust everything your Mac is doing regardless of whether you understand it do you also trust Nigerian princes?

It means that "LittleSnitch" is interfering with the normal operation of your system and wasting your time with useless information.

Wow. I hope you're not a teacher or in a position of authority!!!

part of this : apple push notification service

Messages, Facetime - something like that is using it.