Bug#628573: hplip bonjour breaks for some hp printers (e.g. Photosmart D110a)
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On Mon 30 May 2011 at 06:47:31 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: hplip
> Version: 3.11.1-3
> Severity: normal
>
>
> I have a HP Photosmart D110a wireless printer and in the process of
> getting it working across subnets, noticed the following:
>
> 1) the printer reports it's hostname name as Adriana.local (note the
> capital)
> 2) using hp-toolbox to setup the printer using Bonjour/mDNS is
> successful, however printing the test page fails as does scanning.
>
> The logs show:
>
> May 30 04:32:17 daniloth hpijs[28698]: io/hpmud/jd.c 800: mdns lookup Adriana.local retry 1...
> May 30 04:32:17 daniloth hp[28661]: io/hpmud/jd.c 800: mdns lookup Adriana.local retry 1...
> May 30 04:32:17 daniloth hp[28661]: io/hpmud/jd.c 334: unable to connect to print port 9100: Connection refused hp:/net/Photosmart_D110_series?zc=Adriana
> May 30 04:32:17 daniloth hp[28661]: prnt/backend/hp.c 768: ERROR: cannot open channel PRINT
> May 30 04:32:17 daniloth python: io/hpmud/jd.c 790: error mdns lookup Adriana.local: bad hostname in reply from ip=192.168.173.62 port=5353
>
> 3) The ports are open, and I can even telnet adriana.local 9100 and
> type arbitrary text, and when I close the telnet session it's printed.
> So it's not firewall/routing/etc issue.
>
> 4) Using manual discovery and using adriana (lowercase) doesn't help,
> but if instead of a hostname I use the IP of the printer (so
> hp:/net/Photosmart_D110_series?zc=192.168.199.22) printing and
> scanning work.
>
> 5) Bonjour/avahi is working correctly for other services I use.
>
> My guess at this point is that the capital letter in the printer's
> hostname (even though the hostname as entered/seen in the web
> interface is lowercase, except that the Bonjour information (which
> can't be changed) shows the Adriana.local) break HPLIP's mDNS code.
Daniel, is this still an issue with hplip 3.16.11+repack0-2?
Cheers,
Brian.
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