I am *absolutely* interested. I've had to setup BIND caching on all my print servers (one central, four highly active sub-servers, another 120 elsewhere). The slowdown from the DNS lookups is staggering.
Thanks, Bradley Hartin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications and Network Administrator Straus-Frank Company On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Henrik Edlund wrote: > As there seemed to have been a lot of discussion about this with people > wanting this, and no clear and easy solutions, I took a few hours today > and wrote a small patch set that introduces two new config variables in > lpd.conf (or printcap): > > force_controlfile_originate_hostname=10.0.0.0/255.255.255.254 > force_controlfile_username=_unauthenticated=10.0.0.0/255.255.255/254 > > They work like other options with network addresses, they take multiple > ones including netgroups. > > The first, for the matching addresses, will rewrite the control file with > the real remote address. Just put 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 there to always do it. > > The second, for matching addresses per username, will rewrite the username > in the control file with that username. > > The patch set is really small is I used Patrick's coding style (which I > don't like but I can adjust) when writing them so they would fit nicely > with the rest of the code. > > $ grep + getqueue.c.patch lp.h.patch vars.c.patch | wc -l > 54 > $ grep - getqueue.c.patch lp.h.patch vars.c.patch | wc -l > 14 > > If someone is interested and can post the patches to the list. > > Henrik > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
