Re: airprint patches for cups

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 06:51:37PM +0200, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> > But if you want cups to listen only on one interface then you need more
> > control on what <host>.local resolves to. With mdnsd you have almost 
> > no control, but you can force avahi to announce a specific IP address
> > for <host>.local.
> There seems to be a mis-conception here which I used to share back in the day:
> The Server Name announced by cupsd doesn't need to resolve through MDNS. 
> You can (I have a local patch but guess something similar has been 
> incorporated upstream now) tell cupsd which hostname to announce via 
> mdnsd/avahi on MDNS queries, and that name can resolve through traditional, 
> static, DNS.

AFAIK there's nothing in the stock cupsd configuration which allows this
(I tried very hard before switching to avahi).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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