Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 09:52 -0500, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
>>Chad Perrin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My dilemma now is this: The network is DHCP with two-week IP address
>>>leases. The printers have IP addresses, but don't seem to have
>>>hostnames. This means that every two weeks I'll have to change the
>>>configuration for the printers in CUPS. That's . . . annoying. Does
>>>anyone have some enlightening information about how I could solve this
>>>little issue? I'd really appreciate it.
>>>
>>
>>Ahem. My apologies. That wasn't as clear as it should have been.
>>
>>The fact that there aren't any hostnames available for these printers
>>means that I have to refer to them by IP address in CUPS configuration,
>>and that is why I'd have to change the CUPS configuration every two
>>weeks (when the IP addresses change).
>
>
> I recommend assigning static IP's to the printers.
>
Unfortunately, that's not an option in this instance (at least not at
this time). While I am nominally responsible for the network, the buck
doesn't stop here. The router that is used doesn't allow some static
IPs and some dynamics. It's one or the other, and dynamic IPs are
required for this network.
There's some possibility that the network will eventually be made static
as a whole, with a subnet for DHCP assignment, but this isn't happening
soon in any case.
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