[sane-devel] Help. Any Ideas?

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Torfinn,

Torfinn Ingolfsen writes:

> The "Temporary failure in name resolution" messages in your debug
> output seems to indicate that the pixma backend also wants / needs a
> (DNS) name for your scanner's IP address.
> You could try to add it to your local DNS server if you have one, or
> to the hosts file on the machine you run SANE on, to see if it helps.

Just for the record, if the host name resolution fails the IP address is
used as is.  Quoting from backend/pixma_bjnp.c (starting at line 833):

  /* do reverse name lookup, if hostname can not be found return ip-address */

  if( (error = getnameinfo( &(scanner_sa -> addr) , sa_size( scanner_sa), 
                  host, BJNP_HOST_MAX , NULL, 0, NI_NAMEREQD) ) != 0 )
    {
      PDBG (bjnp_dbg(LOG_INFO, "get_scanner_name: Name for %s not found : %s\n", 
                      ip_address, gai_strerror(error) ) );
      strcpy(host, ip_address);
      return level;
    }

Adding it to your local DNS server isn't expected to help.

Hope this helps,
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