Strange happenings

[Pyrotechnic]

I just restarted my iMac and on rebooting a window popped up to say my clock had been reset to 01/01/2001 at 00:00 and I also had another 2 windows pop up asking if i should allow or deny the connections.

The 2 requests were for mdnsresponder and configd ?

Has something gone wrong, am I at risk. I am a little worried now as I have never ever been asked for connections by these 2 files before.

I am on Snow Leopard, all up to date.

Help ? or am I worrying about nothing.

 

[MikhailT]

I just restarted my iMac and on rebooting a window popped up to say my clock had been reset to 01/01/2001 at 00:00 and I also had another 2 windows pop up asking if i should allow or deny the connections.

The 2 requests were for mdnsresponder and configd ?

Has something gone wrong, am I at risk. I am a little worried now as I have never ever been asked for connections by these 2 files before.

I am on Snow Leopard, all up to date.

Help ? or am I worrying about nothing.

Allow them, they are OS X background services for managing your DNS and other network services. Most likely, because those service were prevented from the Internet, your time wasn't automatically set against the Internet.

 

[Pyrotechnic]

Thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated. It is a little worrying as I have not changed anything and have rebooted on many occasions without being asked before.

Strange.

 

[heswa]

How to restore mDNSResponder

I had the same thing happen to me. When I got those pop-ups, I didn't recognize mDNSResponder or configd so I said "Deny" for both. Now that I know they're necessary for getting online, I can't figure out how to restore access. In the System Preferences > Security > Firewall it doesn't list them as being denied. What do I do?