On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Brian E Carpenter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-03-10 05:00, Jim Gettys wrote:
> ...
>> I was just observing comments I came across in code being used for
>> printer discovery.
>
> Why would we consider anything other than SLP for service discovery?

I don't know the cause of jg's printing issue. Wouldn't mind knowing,
but I doubt it's snmp.

However I note that zeroconf is the way
apparently apple is going, rather than SLP, since OS-X 10.2 and later,
according to wikipedai

and...

http://www.unixmen.com/201202-apple-orphans-linux-cups-features-handicaps-open-source-printing/

"CUPS Browsing, the pivotal process that detects cups-to-cups printer
queue on Linux will no longer be available. Up until now each CUPS
server typically sends UDP packets at 631 port to indicate its
availability for queuing.

Now, the new changes in CUPS 1.6 will not allow this browsing to
happen and will be replaced with DNS-SD. This is already the standard
for Mac OS X, but does not include Avahi support. Avahi is a  popular
system for zeroconf DNS-SD processes."




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