Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address
Date	2020-04-16 12:54 +0200
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On 15/04/2020 16.35, Rich wrote:
> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 14/04/2020 19.46, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> No, routers are not really.  The bonjour was designed for this
>>> really.  IF you can turn it on on te printer it SHOULD solve your
>>> problem the 'official' and rather modern way and has the advantage
>>> (???) that any mobile device  that connects to your network should
>>> also find the printer and be able to use it.
>>
>> I'm not talking of bonjour at all.
>>
>> Just the router giving an IP to machines via DHCP, and finding their
>> names (probably their windows names).  I see my router finding
>> "android" hosts.  It can use rules to assign names on the DNS server
>> that runs on the router.
>>
>> It is easy to assign an IP to a printer on the DHCP server at the
>> router.  It should be trivial to also assign a name in the same
>> config page.
> 
> Agreed, it should be that easy.  But sadly, for every consumer level
> 'router' I've had the unfortunate experience to have to mess with, they
> at best have provided only the ability to assign static IP's to
> specific MAC addresses via their DHCP servers.
> 
> I've not seen one yet (at least with the factory firmware) that
> includes the ability to assign a DNS name to the IP on that same page
> (or on any other page on the router).  At best, they provide "dns
> forwarding" for name resolution, but no way to actually assign one's
> own custom local names.

Sadly true.

> 
> Which is why my /router/ is an actual PC running Linux, so I get DHCP,
> and DNS, and everything else, and without a huge ugly pile of chinglish
> on the web configuration pages where they have renamed everything to
> names no one would think to use (Verizon provided routers for FIOS
> service are *very* awful at renaming everything to some oddly chosen
> term).

I can't do that. I have to use the ISP provided router or things do not 
work - simply because they do not publish the required setup.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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  Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address Bob Tennent <BobT@tennent.ca> - 2020-04-14 11:18 +0000
    Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 13:04 +0100
  Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 13:00 +0100
  Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-04-14 08:36 -0400
    Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 14:03 +0100
      Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-04-14 13:30 -0400
  Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-04-14 15:00 +0200
    Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 14:35 +0100
      Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-04-14 16:10 +0200
        Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 18:46 +0100
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            Re: CUPS - set up printer by name instead of IP address The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-15 11:58 +0100
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