How does CUPS determine server destination?

[Michael Sweet]

angelb at bugarin.us wrote:
 > ...
> Is it correct to say then that when configuring two or more servers, for
> the client to see/poll all servers, the client.conf is no longer needed
> but use the BrowsePoll directive instead?

Correct.

> ...
> It alternates the servers but how does the local scheduler determine
> which server it will send a client request to first, say if you just
> started cupsd?

It will send to the first server that responds to the BrowsePoll
(typically the first server you list, however that is not certain)

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