Bonjour multicast advertising must be disabled on the system.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51549	OSX8-00-00545	SV-65759r1_rule		Medium

Description
Bonjour multicast advertising must be disabled on the system.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53879r1_chk )
To check if multicast advertisements have been disabled, run the following command: sudo defaults read /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder | grep NoMulticastAdvertisements If nothing is returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56353r1_fix)
To configure Bonjour to disable multicast advertising, run the following command: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add :ProgramArguments:2 string '-NoMulticastAdvertisements'" /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist