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I am trying out the new Wide Area Bonjour support.

At home last night I set it up and my MacBook Pro registered its IP address. But when I came to work this morning, I notice my Mac hasn’t updated its IP address even though it has changed.

Will OS X automatically update my Wide Area Bonjour IP address as I move from network to network?

Update: After further testing it appears my company’s firewall is doing something that blocks the updates. What ports or protocols do we need to allow through the firewall?

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asked May 28 at 04:20 PM

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I would assume you need to allow DNS (53/UDP and 53/TCP) through, though to have access they'd also have to enable UPnP on the firewall - something I'd strongly recommend against in a corporate environment (seriously, it's a major security risk).

You'll almost certainly get a more definitive answer on an Apple specific forum, one relating to Wide Area Bonjour - start here.

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answered May 28 at 06:47 PM

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Thanks. Of course we won’t let UPnP through the firewall, so I simply won’t update my IP at the office.

May 28 at 07:43 PM Nate
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Have you read this article? You need to be running an update client, looking at that article.

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answered May 28 at 04:58 PM

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From that article it looks like I don’t need an update client. There is a section talking about the old way to do it, with a DDNS update client. The next section is the new way of doing it, which does not need a client. (Step 1: Tell your device how to authenticate, Step 2: That’s it!)

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