[cups.general] Finding IP Address?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 14:53 , Carlos Will wrote:

>> Anyway, the Device URI contains the information you want, indirectly.
>> In a URI such as "socket://prt242-copier:9100" the hostname is
>> "prt242-copier"; you can use a utility such as "host" or "nslookup"
>> to go from that to the IP address.
>>
> Thanks for the reply Brandon. Doing "host or nslookup" on that  
> would only work if those entries are listed in DNS which they are  
> not. They are tied to a CUPS config somewhere which I just can't  
> find. Is there no where in CUPS that will show me this info because  
> CUPS has to know that printer123 = 10.1.1.10 because I am 100% sure  
> that DNS is not doing this for CUPS.

If it's not in standard DNS then it must be either in a hosts file (/ 
etc/hosts on Unix, various other places on Windows) or coming from  
some other naming system such as mDNS (Bonjour).  CUPS doesn't have  
its own private name service.

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