Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:33:26 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic? Message-ID: <200012151133.aa47244@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:57:43 GMT." <0012151100330S.01649@freefire.psi-domain.co.uk>
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> You could also manually add them to /etc/hosts - but this will be a bit tediou > 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. Another, slightly strange, way to do it would be to create a set of DNS A records, all with the same name but with A records pointing to all the hosts alows to use the printers. Then you could just put this entry in hosts.lpd ;-) David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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