"Relaying from" odd IP address

[Michael Sweet]

John A. Murdie wrote:
> 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?

It's a side-effect of the implementation; basically, the IPv4 address
is the last number (2418061321) as a 32-bit number.

If you can, please file a bug report and I'll fix the logging for
1.2.11 (it should show the IPv4 address, since we don't support IPv6
browsing at this time...)

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