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Why do the computers in my LAN keep replicating?
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Helmling
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Mar 12, 2015, 05:30 PM
 
When I look at my home network, I now see computers with numbers in parenthesis. One of my computers now appears 13 freakin' times! I can't see any way to reset or clear these.

Does anyone know what's going on?
     
turtle777
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Mar 12, 2015, 06:25 PM
 
Known Yosemite bug, exemplifying how Apple's software QA has become crap.

Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to fix it | Ars Technica

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Mar 13, 2015, 06:50 AM
 
Apple switched to a new DNS client to make Continuity possible. They haven't quite ironed out the bugs yet … let's hope 10.11 gets a little more love from the QA team.
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Mar 13, 2015, 07:21 AM
 
You can just go in and rename the computers. I didn't know this was a "bug," but my iMac's name wound up "Name (2)" so I just changed it back to "Name."

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Mar 17, 2015, 05:03 PM
 
Is this anything related to my Apple TV now being named "Apple TV (8)" with no way to change it?

Then again, I've had this problem since before Yosemite.

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