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

[Eric Michaelis]

I'm not aware of a UNIX variant that determines the hostname of the server
by finding the first hostname listed in the hosts file. On AIX, at least,
the hostname is stored in the ODM. It IS true that it may resolve the
hostname to an invalid IP, or conversely, resolve the IP address of a
particular interface to the wrong name if it's listed in the hosts file, but
it's not true that the hostname is automatically set to the first hostname
found in /etc/hosts.

Eric

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> wrote:

>
> Well, obviously CUPS replaces host name alias names with the official host
> name; that is the first name in the /etc/hosts line.
>
>
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