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Why on Earth do ordinary systems need CUPS binding to a port at all?
by amluto 2y ago
Why on Earth do ordinary systems need CUPS binding to a port at all?
- a96 2y agoThey don't need. Want, for listening to network printers announcing themselves. It's a very bad system, even then.
- amluto 2y agoHave you ever seen a network printer announce itself by talking to a print daemon on port 631? I’ve seen network printers announce themselves over DNS-SD/mDNS and over NetBIOS, AppleTalk, etc. All of those are a layer beneath the print daemon.
- yrro 2y agoThey don't. cups-browsed is a legacy component that isn't needed on ordinary systems, which outsource printer discovery to an mDNS service such as avahi.