How to install and configure mDNSResponder

KDE Dolphin has been misbehaving as client viewing network shares on Windows machines. Random errors "Zeroconf daemon is not running". But mdnsresponder is not there. I installed it but that broke Dolphin. Had to resintall Dolphin.

KDE's file manager x11-fm/dolphin does not like mdnsresponder.

Code:
# pkg inst  x11-fm/dolphin
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 4 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        avahi-libdns: 0.8
        dolphin: 22.04.3
        kf5-kdnssd: 5.95.0
        kio-extras: 22.04.3

Number of packages to be installed: 4

The process will require 15 MiB more space.
5 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/4] Fetching dolphin-22.04.3.pkg: 100%    4 MiB   2.1MB/s    00:02   
[2/4] Fetching kf5-kdnssd-5.95.0.pkg: 100%   73 KiB  74.9kB/s    00:01   
[3/4] Fetching avahi-libdns-0.8.pkg: 100%   37 KiB  37.7kB/s    00:01   
[4/4] Fetching kio-extras-22.04.3.pkg: 100%    1 MiB   1.0MB/s    00:01   
Checking integrity... done (1 conflicting)
  - avahi-libdns-0.8 conflicts with mDNSResponder-1310.140.1 on /usr/local/lib/libdns_sd.so
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Conflicts with the existing packages have been found.
One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them.
The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
        mDNSResponder: 1310.140.1

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        avahi-libdns: 0.8
        dolphin: 22.04.3
        kf5-kdnssd: 5.95.0
        kio-extras: 22.04.3

Installed packages to be REINSTALLED:
        pkg-1.18.3

Number of packages to be removed: 1
Number of packages to be installed: 4
Number of packages to be reinstalled: 1

The process will require 13 MiB more space.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/6] Deinstalling mDNSResponder-1310.140.1...
[1/6] Deleting files for mDNSResponder-1310.140.1: 100%
[2/6] Installing avahi-libdns-0.8...
===> Creating groups.
Using existing group 'avahi'.
===> Creating users
Using existing user 'avahi'.
[2/6] Extracting avahi-libdns-0.8: 100%
[3/6] Installing kf5-kdnssd-5.95.0...
[3/6] Extracting kf5-kdnssd-5.95.0: 100%
[4/6] Installing kio-extras-22.04.3...
[4/6] Extracting kio-extras-22.04.3: 100%
[5/6] Installing dolphin-22.04.3...
[5/6] Extracting dolphin-22.04.3: 100%
[6/6] Reinstalling pkg-1.18.3...
[6/6] Extracting pkg-1.18.3: 100%
Building cache database of MIME types
Building the Shared MIME-Info database cache
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Don't post unrelated issues to a howto please.

But mdnsresponder is not there.
It's not supposed to be there. dns/kf5-kdnssd depends on Avahi by default, not mDNSResponder.

Code:
====> Zeroconf (Bonjour) support: you can only select none or one of them
     AVAHI=on: Zeroconf support via Avahi
     MDNSRESPONDER=off: Zeroconf support via mDNSResponder
 
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