config CUPS and ethernet

[Rickard Hansson]

Reason for hostname lookup failure is that localhost, nor  
localhost.localdomain is valid DNS names.

What the machine tries to do is to lookup the names using sandard dns  
queries.

The 12.7.0.0.1 and the 169.254.x.x are all internal ip-numbers that  
cannot be used on the internet.


For internal network usage it should be fine to use those ip:s  
(127.0.0.1 is n loopback address that has to be available on all  
machines).


What i would recommend is to give all machines ip-numbers in the same  
ip-number range and the most common ranges are 192.168.1.x and  
192.168.0.x series, these are commonly used if sitting behind an  
router or firewall. Just don´t forget to configure them all with same  
router address.

If not all machines are on the same ip-number range, then tey will  
also get routing problems.


Hope this makes sence to you.







//Rickard Hansson

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16 sep 2005 kl. 05.57 skrev Gerald Raddatz:

> Want to configure a macintosh G4 AGP 450 using ethernet to talk to  
> an Apple
> LW16/600 named "grad" using YDL 4.0.1.
>
> Using CUPS configured as a Networked UNIX printer. Not sure what to  
> use for
> Server name. Continue to get: host name lookup failure.
>
> Tried the following for a server name:
> ipp://127.0.0.1
> localhost.localdomain
> 169.254.235.28 - busy
> grad.localhost.localdomain
>
> Sharing: eth0
>
> Ethernet mac address:
> 00:0a:27:ae:63:e0
>
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