[cups.general] CUPS web interface generating absolute URLs for printers with "loopback" addresses

[Eric Michaelis]

I believe I've figured this out. On a default AIX install, the hosts file
has the entry as I listed below. From what I can tell of reading the CUPS
code (keeping in mind that I haven't written anything in C in 15 years),
CUPS is getting "loopback" as the name for that IP, comparing it to
"localhost" (which fails), and rewriting all the URLs as http://loopback....

Reversing the order of the entries in /etc/hosts (i.e., changing it to:
127.0.0.1    localhost   loopback) seems to fix this behavior.

Thanks!

Eric

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Eric Michaelis <combinare at gmail.com>wrote:

> I checked that before I posted, actually; the only reference to loopback in
> /etc/hosts on the server is:
>
> 127.0.0.1       loopback localhost  # loopback (lo0) name/address
>
> I don't believe that's the source of the problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=msweet@apple.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Your /etc/hosts file incorrectly has loopback assigned to your network
>> address.  It should only be associated with 127.0.0.1 and ::1.
>>
>>
>>
>
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