[cups.general] http://::1/printers/m URL ERROR

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Dec 1, at 17:40, ben wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has come accross a problem when clicking on  
> a printer link from Manage Printers and it redirects to the  
> following URL http://::1/printers/Printer1
>
> The Hostname and Port are removed.
>
> This only started happening after restarting the cups service.


At a guess, something was changed to cause your local host name to be  
mapped to 127.0.0.1 (IPv4) / ::1 (IPv6), and because that kind of  
thing is often cached a restart was needed before CUPS found out about  
it.

I would check /etc/hosts first --- it is in general a bad idea to map  
the local hostname to the loopback IP address, it confuses too many  
programs.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH