Bonjour

From Applepedia

Bonjour is Apple's (horrible) trade name for Zeroconf. It's used for ad-hoc networking on the subnet your machine is in.

Apple changed the name from Rendezvous due to a settlement with TIBCO, which makes some moon software called Rendezvous™ as well.

Applications that support Bonjour (Formerly known as Rendezvous)

• iChat
• iTunes
• iPhoto
• Adium
• Transmit
• SubEthaEdit
• iTerm
• Skype

Sometimes Bonjour gets confused

I haven't experimented very much with this, but if Adium crashes on connecting to a Bonjour network and your iTunes isn't showing shares near you, you might want to bounce the Bonjour service. To do that, let's use launchctl, which is part of launchd:

      (in Terminal.app or some other shell)
      ~ #> sudo launchctl
      launchd% stop com.apple.mDNSResponder
      launchd% start com.apple.mDNSResponder
      launchd% ^D
      (that's ctrl-D to quit)

More Reading

• OS X Features: Bonjour