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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:57:43 +0000
From:      Jamie Heckford <heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic?
Message-ID:  <0012151100330S.01649@freefire.psi-domain.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20001215105104.A73285@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151043130.10436-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <20001215105104.A73285@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote:
> > For a heavily loaded printer server (as mine is) this seems not be a good
> > idea ... but maybe there's a good reason to to this?
> 
> I presume this is so that you can list machine aliases in the
> hosts.lpd file, and to avoid issues with machines that may have
> more than one interface. One solution would be to run a caching
> name server on the print server and point resolv.conf at 127.0.0.1.
> 

You could also manually add them to /etc/hosts - but this will be a bit tedious
when you have a lot of machines. Maybe list IP addresses in /etc/hosts.lpd
instead of hostnames? This could cause alot of reverse lookups though.

> 	David.
> 
> 
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