sending ip as part of printer uri

Aaron E. ssureshot at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 05:20:21 PST 2010


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On 11/30/2010 06:31 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a small network at home with broken DNS setup. (It's not an
> option to fix that since it would imply other unwanted changes.)
> That means that the FQDN of my cups server cannot be resolved correctly
> from other clients. The only ways for other computers to find the cups
> server is via IP address, hostname only or by using
> hostname.CUSTOM_DOMAIN where CUSTOM_DOMAIN is not the one configured on
> the cups server.
> Now the server is broadcasting my attached printer with its own
> $(hostname -f) part in the ipp printer uri. So it's impossible for the
> clients to print to that printer although it's visible.
> I "only" need to tell the cups server to use the ip address or custom
> fqdn in its broadcast packets but failed to find how to do it.
> I tried setting ServerName to the ip address but that didn't work.
>
> My cups version is 1.4.4 on Linux.
>
>
> Any pointers?
>
>
> Thanks,
>   Wolfgang




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