iChat Near Me

[jacekwo]

Why is there a Near Me section in my iChat after the last update? I did not create it... Is there a location based tracking built into iChat now?

 

[duxDuck]

"Apple's Instant Messaging client, iChat, includes support for direct peer-to-peer chatting without communicating via a server, using an XMPP-like communication protocol.

This mode, called "Bonjour Chat" in iChat, uses DNS-SD to discover peers with which to populate the Bonjour buddy list. This means that, unlike a conventional buddy list which you manage yourself, the Bonjour window gives you an automatically-created buddy list which can loosely be described as something like "people near me"."

For more information http://www.dns-sd.org/iChatWideArea.html

 

[melchior]

worth noting, that boujour means other macs on your local network.