[cups.general] SSL produces intermittent printer outage

[Michael Sweet]

You could check the server logs to see if there was a bad SSL negotiation - are you running the apps on the print server or are the apps pointed at another server?

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:36 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

> 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
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair