[cups.general] 1.6x IPP printer detection

[Kai Hendry]

On 13 March 2013 16:43, Johannes Meixner <jsmeix at suse.de> wrote:
> 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).

Ok, I've since discovered writing a ServerName IP to
/etc/cups/client.conf, makes Webconverger able to detect my 1.6
printer server.
https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/issues/145

What protocol is this? The only downside is that I think this breaks
in 1.6? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404#c25

This workaround avoids the Avahi install and its crazy amount of
Python dependencies. However now my clients have the prospect of a
poor UX by having to specify their printers IP, instead of the
preferred "it just worked!" UX.

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

Pretty shocking Johannes. Noticed some of those bugs myself. :(

Extremely irritating how the config changed and the coredumps on
restart. Wowsers bad.



Many thanks again,