Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 23:44:29 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 16:20:54 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:

> > What I understood Greg as asking about is how to get CUPS to *tell* you
> > what the IP address it knows about for a given printer object is. That
> > doesn't seem to be an unreasonable thing to want to know, or to expect
> > CUPS to be able to provide; I'd want the same thing, in anything
> > remotely like his place.
> 
> Finding the IP address is easy:
> 
>  ippfind -T 5
>  ipp://envy4500.local:631/ipp/print
>  ping -c 3 envy4500.local

Would the ping output give an IP address like the one quoted
(10.76.172.100), or would you only get a 169.254/16 one?
(I've not run an mDNS configured network.)

Cheers,
David.