Bug#717245: marked as done (cups-daemon: Bonjour record changed format from "printer@host.domain" to "printer@host" in 1.6)
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regarding cups-daemon: Bonjour record changed format from "printer@host.domain" to "printer@host" in 1.6
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Package: cups-daemon
Version: 1.6.2-10
Severity: important
Hello!
I am using CUPS in Debian testing to provide access to a pool of 30+
printers to all sorts of OSes (research institute).
Switching from CUPS 1.5.3 to 1.6.2, I noticed that it registers its
Bonjour records differently with Avahi: `avahi-browse -a` now shows
+ eth0 IPv4 ps22 @ cups Internet Printer local
instead of
+ eth0 IPv4 ps22 @ cups.pks.mpg.de Internet Printer local
This change, unfortunately, breaks printing to these printers from all
MacOS systems. A work-around would be to remove all Bonjour-printers
from the clients' systems and re-add them again.
Considering our user base and the nerves of our IT support team, I'd
much prefer to keep the old record format.
So, is this change intentional? If so, is there a way to revert to the
old format with CUPS 1.6?
(I have been playing with 'ServerName', 'ServerAlias' settings in
cupsd.conf -- to no avail. I also tried changing the 'host-name'
parameter in Avahi -- dito.)
Thanks!
Regards,
Hagen
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Hi Hagen,
Le mercredi, 11 décembre 2013, 18.22:58 Hagen Fuchs a écrit :
> For posteriority and vanity's sake: I did indeed write a script for
> the transition period from long to short Bonjour names as advertised
> by CUPS[0].
>
> It turned out surprisingly effective and stable, so I decided to keep
> the script around instead of just throwing it away. Perhaps somebody
> finds it a useful starting point for the same or a similar problem.
>
> The thing's called Bonjour Aliases and was in productive use for the
> last three months at the aforementioned research institute. I put the
> code up on Github:
>
> https://github.com/hfuchs/bonjour_aliases
>
> The thing is written in Python and needs one additional module called
> pybonjour[1] which is not (yet) in the Debian repository. This
> excellently documented library is essentially doing the heavy lifting.
>
> I provide a fleshed-out README and a run-script for use with
> 'daemontools' or 'runit'.
>
> So, for me, the problem is solved and this bugreport may be closed.
Yay. Thanks for the details and the publication of your solution; I'm
hereby closing this bug. Thanks for your time!
Cheers,
OdyX
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