Bug#840327: stopped working, no helpful feedback
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.
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