SSL produces intermittent printer outage

[John A. Sullivan III]

Hello, all.  Because our print servers and our entire environment is multi-tenant, we encrypt traffic wherever possible including our print jobs.  However, we are having a persistent problem using encryption with CUPS version 1.4.4-3 on Debian Lenny (I believe CUPS is from Squeeze, though).

Every one in a while, the printers will not appear in the printer list of the various applications.  The result ranges from nuisance (OpenOffice shows only a Generic Printer) to really nasty (Timberline crashes and can potentially corrupt its database).

I see nothing in the error logs.  Has anyone else experienced or, better yet, solved this? Any hints on how to troubleshoot it further? Alas, it is only a couple of times per week problem.  Thanks - John