CUPS and DNS

[Michael Sweet]

angelb wrote:
> ...
> What I don't see(or don’t understand) is how CUPS reference a secondary
> DNS server listed in the resolv.conf file. I intentionally entered a
> non-responding IP address in resolv.conf as the first entry, an lpstat
> command will return after a period of time(30-40seconds later) but
> there is no trace(or at least I don't see it) of how CUPS use the
> secondary server. How is it done?

You'd need to look at the resolver code (part of glibc on Linux) to
see what is going on.  CUPS just uses the system-provided services
so we don't have any control over that sort of thing... :(

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