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Cups slow when gateway down

I have a SCO UNIX box that is having a issue. When the internet is down, printing is very slow. I am running CUPS and the spoolers are based on the hostname in the local hosts file. I know this has to be some DNS issue. But what can I do to?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Cotton on May 5, 2010 at 2:41pm

Is resolv.conf configured to check files before DNS for hosts?

If you use IP addresses instead of host names in CUPS configs, does that help the problem?

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Permalink Reply by Greg on May 6, 2010 at 2:53pm

I needed to setup BIND in order for it to work. Looks like it was the perfect storm with CUPS and SCO.
After BIND was installed and running, they pulled the WAN cable and the printers did not pause.

Greg