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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.


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