Bonjour, formerly called Rendezvous, is an implementation of Zeroconf’s service discovery protocol. It is used in several
operating systems such as Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Bonjour uses multicast DNS service records to locate devices
such as printers, computers and many other services. Bonjour is utilized to discover services on a LAN and to allow users to
set up a network without any configurations. It is often used by operating systems to locate printers and file sharing servers.
Software products such as iTunes and iPhoto also use Bonjour for multimedia file sharing. It can also be used for collaborative document editing. In addition, Bonjour is used by Safari to find local web servers and configuration pages for local devices. The Bonjour Browser can be used to explore services announced by these applications. Bonjour only works within a single broadcast domain, which is usually a small area if the DNS server is not appropriately configured. Bonjour does not have the capability to advertise services to the public Internet. Moreover it does not provide any extra access to services, even on the