[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#373636: cupsys: Suddenly broadcasts UDP packets?

[Roger Leigh]

Manuel Bilderbeek <manuel at msxnet.org> writes:

> I don't know why it happens, but since June 5 (I do a daily dist-upgrade
> of my testing system), I get this in my /var/log/messages every 30
> seconds:
> Jun 14 19:42:33 vixen kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.10 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=175 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=79 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=155
>
> As it is on port 631, I assumed it's CUPS doing this. Why? Is it really
> a bug or do I need to turn something off with the new package?

This is CUPS broadcasting a list of available printers.  All the other
CUPS servers on your network will pick it up (if so configured).

You can change it by setting
  Browsing off
in /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf (or dpkg-reconfigure cupsys).

This isn't a bug in CUPS--it's the way it has been configured to
behave.


Regards,
Roger

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