[cups] The device-uri and an everywhere queue

[Michael Sweet]

Brian,

> On Jan 27, 2017, at 4:53 AM, Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have an IPP printer on the network and a Debian machine with
> CUPS 2.2.2. 'lpinfo -v' gives three device-uris: socket://...,
> dnssd://... and ipp://....
> 
> lpadmin -p ... -v <dnssd://... or ipp://...> -E -m everywhere
> 
> creates queues which can be successfully printed to.
> 
> Is there any reason to prefer one device-uri over the other?

If the ipp URI is using a numeric IP address, prefer the dnssd URI.  Otherwise they are equally stable.
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer