I recently had a problem on AIX with LPRng 3.8.26 where printing commands hung for up to ten minutes before printing, querying status, etc.
Even doing an "lpq --help" hung! That shouldn't involve any remote queries... The situation was that one of our DNS servers had stopped responding to queries (still up, but service died). The primary DNS server and another secondary were still available. The problems with LPRng persisted until we restarted the DNS service, however AIX and our other software products didn't have problems resolving names during that time period. Does LPRng use a custom resolve library or another unusual method for lookups? I'm trying to figure out why LPRng responded that way when there were other DNS servers available. Russell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRng MAILING LIST The address you post from or your Reply-To address 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. 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, call Patrick Powell or one of the friendly staff at Astart Technologies for help. Astart also does support for LPRng. Also, check the Web Page at: http://www.lprng.com for any announcements. Astart Technologies (LPRng - Print Spooler http://www.lprng.com) 6741 Convoy Court San Diego, CA 92111 858-874-6543 FAX 858-751-2435 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
