Package: libcups2 Version: 1.3.11-1+b1 Severity: normal I am experiencing the same problem. And I think I know what is causing it. I have a remote server configured. The server's DNS name resolves even on the Internet, but the cups server is only accessible from within the corporate network.
What happens now is that when I am at home, cups resolves the DNS name of the server (which works) and then tries to connect to the server. However, the server is protected by a firewall and drops all requests from external hosts (i.e., it does not answer the TCP SYN requests). Cups waits for a very long time (minutes) until it realizes that the connection will not happen. So you can easily reproduce this by adding a firewall rule on your local machine that drops all packets sent to the cups server. It would be really helpful if this timeout to give up connection requests to the server would be configurable - or default to a much shorter timeout than it currently does. Thanks, Marcel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libcups2 depends on: ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgnutls26 2.8.3-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime libcups2 recommends no packages. Versions of packages libcups2 suggests: ii cups-common 1.3.11-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org