Why do I need mDNSResponder/howl?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

jim lawrence wrote:
> if this is the case with mDNSResponder & howl  can they both be
> removed from the system?   if so, how ?  i just assume not to have
> anything on my notebook that i'm NOT going to ever need or use.

The only way to remove it, is to remove GNOME, and bunch of other 
desktop applications (mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, to name 
few) that depend on GNOME in one way or the other.

See this bug on bugzilla:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145188

Since you probably are not going to go that far, the best you can do for 
now is:

    # chkconfig mDNSResponder off
    # /etc/init.d/mDNSResponder stop

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