The very first paragraph of that article says:<p>&gt; The implementation of both approaches on the same network can be problematic, however, so resolving such names via “unicast” DNS servers has fallen into disfavor as computers, printers and other devices supporting zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) have become increasingly common.<p>Which seems to confirm what the original poster wrote - it sounds like a bad idea using it on OSX where it collides with bonjour.