Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 11 Oct 2016 at 11:20:48 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> On 11/10/16 10:16, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > 
> > Please do
> > 
> >   avahi-browse -art > filename
> > 
> > and post filename. avahi-browse is in the avahi-utils package.
> > 
> > Also post the outputs of
> > 
> >   /usr/sbin/lpinfo -v
> >   /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp
> >   ping -c3 ABC123DEF.local
> > 
> 
> I found out that the root cause appeared to be a firewall change that
> was specifically blocking the mDNS stuff while other things still
> worked, I commented on it in this reply on debian-printing:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2016/10/msg00079.html

Yes, I saw that. Glad you sorted it.

> Is there anything the avahi tools can do in scenarios like this to
> provide more information through the printing diagnostic wizard?

I asked for the information above for a purpose. Apart from providing a
diagnostic for your now solved problem it would help to improve the
present documentation. It would still be useful to have.

Cheers,

Brian.