[H-GEN] LPD Stops working if internet link is down....

[Mark Suter]

Michael,

> I would really appreciate it if someone could have a look at this and tell
> me what stupid things I have done for this to happen.  From what I can see,
> the print server (10.10.10.11) is doing a large number of DNS requests for
> the root name server information and I suspect that it is this that is
> blocking the print services, something to do with checking the IP addresses
> of the machine connecting to it.

By default, unix hosts are fairly bad at handling non-networked
existence because it loses the DNS.  A good way to get around
this is to setup a local DNS server that is authoritative for
what your local day-to-day queries, including:

    * forward and reverse lookups on all local hosts.
    * secondary of important zones (ask permission!)

Yours sincerely,

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