[Note: big apologies for all the spam, but this has been driving me
insane.]
Doh! Looks like lpd causes its own DoS -- and this was reported a hair
shy of two years ago:
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~mcoogan/bugtraq/msg02990.html
-Ken (who is now quickly making sure that yp *is* running, and that no
more jobs from root are in queue, and has wasted more paper in the
past 10 minutes than he had in the past 12 hours.)
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> > If the printers are attached to an HP JetDirect box:
> >
> > Telnet to the IP address of the print server, and post the output of the "/"
> > command.
>
> Add'l datapoint before I post the output: it seems that the queues (all of
> 'em!) get hung up on the last job of any given number (from 1 to N) that
> are submitted at the same time. So, if I submit (say) four jobs, all will
> print, but job #4 will appear to stay in the queue with a size of 0:
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 1st root 3 ... 0 bytes
>
> If I lprm the job, and restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpr, it works fine for the
> next batch, and so on. Clearly, however, even with a funky expect script,
> this ain't the way to fly.
>
> All the printers (save, again, the lone, dread Sharp) are HP printers with
> internal JD cards, ranging from a 4050 to an 8550C. For the 5000 (the one
> near me), here's the output from "/":
>
> ===JetDirect Telnet Configuration===
> Firmware Rev. : G.08.04
> MAC Address : 00:10:83:f4:e0:ef
> Config By : DHCP
>
> IP Address : 192.168.1.100
> Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
> Default Gateway : 192.168.1.19
> Syslog Server : Not Specified
> Idle Timeout : 15 Seconds
> Set Cmnty Name : Not Specified
> Host Name : NPIF4E0EF
>
> DHCP Config : Enabled
> Passwd : Disabled
> IPX/SPX : Enabled
> DLC/LLC : Enabled
> Ethertalk : Enabled
> Banner page : Enabled
>
> All of which looks pretty good to me for TCP/IP-cum-LPR printing. (I
> changed the timeout from the original 90 to 15, hoping that that would
> help clear any TCP port blocking that might have been occuring, but no
> difference whatsoever appeared to take place.)
>
> -Ken
>
> P.S. Argh! My ******* notebook seems to work fine! Stock RH 6.2 lpr.
> Time to run some straces and/or sniffs, I'm afraid.
>
>
> **********************************************************
> To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
> *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
> unsubscribe gnhlug
> **********************************************************
>
**********************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
unsubscribe gnhlug
**********************************************************
