Bug#878148: cups: Default ServerName wrong/not in sync with manual
On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 14:50:20 +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> > Does either 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts map to your FQDN?
>
> The base host name of the system is resolvable to its FQDN and
> `hostname -f` returns the correct FQDN.
>
> Yet, as reported, CUPS only accepts the base name as reported by
> `hostname`.
CUPS' behaviour is intentional. It rejects requests addressed to the
system's FQDN host which are received over the local loopback interface.
127.0.1.1 uses the loopback interface.
https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups-devel/2009-May/009532.html
Cheers,
Brian.
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