On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 5:13 PM Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> > I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour from my machines. mDNS is not the
> > source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS is the source of truth in
> > my networks ...
>
> Do you have any network printers?  That work without having mDNS enabled?

Yes.

I enable SLP, LPD and IPP only. I use CUPS Postscript drivers. And I
believe I use PCL-5, and not PCL-6.

I disable AirPrint, Bonjour, WS-Discovery, WS-Print, Telnet printing,
TFTP printing and 9100-Printing.

> Originally I had an /etc/nsswitch.conf with a cut down hosts: line
>   hosts:          files dns
> and no matter what I did I could not print to the network-attached printer.
>  ... which, to be fair, could just be my ignorance wrt to printing.
> But switch back to an /etc/nsswitch.conf with
>   hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
> and I could print.

Jeff

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