Wide-Area Bonjour browsing

If you want to see Wide-Area Bonjour browsing in action without having to install the Preference Pane / Control Panel, you can do that just by entering an appropriate DNS search domain.

Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger

Open "System Preferences" and click on "Network". Enter "dns-sd.org" in the Search Domains field and click "Apply Now". Now when you look in Safari you should see additional (non-local) services discovered in the Bonjour list:

Windows XP and 2000/2003

Just follow the steps below to add a DNS search domain (what Microsoft calls a "DNS suffix"):

1. Click "start"
2. Select "Control Panel"
3. Double-click "Network Connections" (If you don't see it, click "Switch to Classic View")
4. Double-click your active connection, and then click "Properties"
5. Click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", and then click "Properties"
6. Click "Advanced..."
7. Click on the "DNS" tab
8. Click "Append these DNS suffixes (in order)"
9. Click "Add..."
10. Type "dns-sd.org"
11. Click "Add" "OK" "OK" "Close" "Close"

Now when you look in Internet Explorer (with Bonjour for Windows installed) you should see additional (non-local) services discovered in the Bonjour list: