I do have a similar problem. I have a printer shared on a local network. When I try to add the printer within gnome (so I guess system-config-printer) and fill in alfa as hostname it can't find it. When I use the IP directly it works. Adding the printer however does not change the IP to the hostname, so it works. But filling in the IP manually is not quite userfriendly...
alfa is defined in /etc/hosts but is not found when doing host alfa, but using alfa in firefox or with ping or with resolveip works as expected... I'm using karmic, but the same problem existed in earlier versions too... Output from some terminal commands... --------------- nat...@gamma:~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 gamma localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 gamma 192.168.1.100 alfa # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts nat...@gamma:~$ host alfa Host alfa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) nat...@gamma:~$ ping alfa -c 1 PING alfa (192.168.1.100) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from alfa (192.168.1.100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.258 ms --- alfa ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.258/0.258/0.258/0.000 ms nat...@gamma:~$ resolveip alfa IP address of alfa is 192.168.1.100 --------------------------------------------- End of output -- IPP Printing fails if server is identified by name rather than address https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174874 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
