"Relaying from" odd IP address

[John A. Murdie]

I've noticed in the error_log of an instance of CUPS 1.2.8 running on a Solaris 9 system here that there is a strange informational message:

I [01/May/2007:09:56:51 +0000] Relaying from 0.0.0.2418061321/4294967295.4294967295.4294967295.4294967295 to 144.32.41.255:631 (IPv4)

each time cupsd is started. The relevent item in the associated cupsd.conf file is:

BrowseRelay 144.32.176.9 144.32.41.255

which is to relay the details of the printers from a student CUPS file server - 144.32.176.9 to our Linux staff desktop subnet. If one comments this out from the file and restarts the cupsd, then the message does not appear in the log.

Why the strange large numeric values in the message rather than the values given in the BrowseRelay directive?

John A. Murdie