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I've reported Bonjour sync issues elsewhere and continue to have problems. What now appears to be a consistent fix is to allow all incoming connections (disabling the firewall), even though OF identified in the list of acceptable connections when the firewall is up.

Question - the OF in my firewall's selection list was chosen from the OF app on the mac. I wonder if that OF reference allows communication between the mac and the OF mothership (company), rather than allowing communications between the mac and iphone.

What's the correct firewall exception list component that allows the OF/iphone to communicate with the mac?

EDIT:

I ran a test with my firewall log - allow all incoming versus excepted incoming. Here's a redacted log section showing "deny" (when OF did not sync) despite the fact that OF mac app is in the exception list of allowed connections (there's no way to get the mobile OF app into the list, since it's greyed out when you try to add it from iTunes folder):

Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:17:30 PM US/Pacific
Apr 28 12:18:09 Xs-MacBook Firewall[51]: Deny ^H�R.��� connecting from 167.251.170.177:49215 uid = 0 proto=6
Apr 28 12:18:10 Xs-MacBook Firewall[51]: Deny 8�R.��W^D8�R.^F^B connecting from 169.254.170.177:49215 uid = 0 proto=6
Apr 28 12:18:40: --- last message repeated 7 times ---
Apr 28 12:18:44 Xs-MacBook Firewall[51]: Deny 8�R.��W^D8�R.^F^B connecting from 167.251.170.177:49215 uid = 0 proto=6

As soon as I reset the firewall to "allow all incoming connections," OF synched fine.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Edit: 4/30 - Now syncing fine, even w/o allowing "all access" at firewall, and without having to put iphone into Airplane Mode.