On Sat, 20 May 2023 08:24:39 +0200
john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote:

> >
> > .home.arpa ? I had never heard of it until you mentioned it. You are
> > suggesting that I change every reference to localdomain to
> > .home.arpa? Implementing that change is going to be a major pain in
> > the arse.  
> 
> My idea was that .local and .localdomain could be an issue for the
> autodetection of the printer.
> That was simply a suggestion if you were not getting anywhere.

Ah, yes. I had wondered about that. Thanks for the clarification.

> 
> Granted, I should have phrased that in a better way (sorry about
> that).

No worries. That's what asking for clarification is for. :-)

> 
> I also want to point out that you have a domain name, I would use that
> instead of .home.arpa!

True. So any computer becomes foo.charlescurley.com instead of its
current foo.localdomain? That might work, but is still a huge PITA to
implement. I think I have a workable solution in the IP version of the
queue, and the Perl programmer's virtue of laziness suggests I use that.

> 
> Brian has done abetter job in trying to help you out than what I could
> have done!

He has done an excellent job. Thanks again, Brian.

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