[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Mar 13 16:02 Kai Hendry wrote (excerpt):
> ... clients, which should be able to browse the
> shared PDF printer on my printing host ...

Since CUPS version 1.6 the traditional "CUPS Browsing" is dropped.
Since CUPS version 1.6 only DNS-SD is supported.
Up to CUPS version 1.5 there is no native DNS-SD support in CUPS
under Linux (except via add-on patches that add Avahi support).
Since CUPS version 1.6 there is native DNS-SD support in CUPS
also under Linux.

See
http://www.cups.org/roadmap.php?VERSION=1.6
therein in particular
"Drop support for CUPS Browsing and Polling"
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3922

For a summary of "What's New in CUPS 1.6" see
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.6/whatsnew.html
in particular:
"Sharing Protocols; The scheduler no longer supports
  the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols for printer sharing."

Additionally you may have a look at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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