Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:15:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Amarendra Godbole <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpd refuses to print from a machine with a DHCP assigned IP address... Message-ID: <20070407111328.U68971@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <294439d20704052316s65cca52bk71307736766b3e8f@mail.gmail.com> References: <294439d20704052316s65cca52bk71307736766b3e8f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > My FreeBSD box picks up its IP through DHCP. Now I configured a > printer on this machine, using apsfilter. So far so good. Now when I > try to print anything, I see the following error in the lpd-errs file: > ------------ > Apr 6 11:00:03 zimbu lpd[1501]: unable to get official name for local > machine zimbu.vxindia.veritas.com: hostname nor servname provided, or > not known > Apr 6 11:00:03 zimbu lpd[1501]: lp: no line printer device or host name > ------------ > > Now, if I add an entry for zimbu in /etc/hosts (with the currently > assigned IP address), printing works fine. This is not really an lpd question, but a DHCP and DNS question. Depending on your DHCP server, the "send host-name" option of dhclient.conf might help. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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