[Expired for cups (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345015
Title:
CUPS SNMP should not scan the entire local subnet by default
Status in cups package in Ubuntu:
Expired
Bug description:
Binary package hint: cupsys
There is a bug in Launchpad somewhere where users where complaining
that the SNMP backend in CUPS was disabled. The bug was resolved in
Intrepid, and it does indeed work now.
Unfortunately, it works a bit too well for many enterprise users.
In Intrepid, CUPS will by default, scan the entire local subnet of the
host for printers responding to SNMP. In the enterprise, this sets
off many alarms on various NIDS and firewalls.
I think maybe a happy medium would be to leave the SNMP backend
enabled, so that users can easily set it up, but limit the SNMP
polling to just the localhost.
This can be done by changing /etc/cups/snmp.conf to read
Address 127.0.0.1
instead of
Address @LOCAL
This particular problem caught me, so I wrote a blog post about it. I
have received quite a few comments from other enterprise users
thanking me for the tip. My blog is very low traffic, the fact that
it has any comments at all shows it's affecting quite a few people.
http://www.sysadminsjourney.com/2008/11/05/disable-snmp-printer-
scanning-in-ubuntu-intrepid
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