On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> > For a heavily loaded printer server (as mine is) this seems not be a good
> > idea ... but maybe there's a good reason to to this?
>
> I presume this is so that you can list machine aliases in the
> hosts.lpd file, and to avoid issues with machines that may have
> more than one interface. One solution would be to run a caching
> name server on the print server and point resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1.
>
You could also manually add them to /etc/hosts - but this will be a bit tedious
when you have a lot of machines. Maybe list IP addresses in /etc/hosts.lpd
instead of hostnames? This could cause alot of reverse lookups though.
> David.
>
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