Re: All printers and their IP Addresses

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've done many printers using DHCP -- never had a problem in 20+ years.

It's obviously important that if you use this scenario, you use DDNS to 
update the host name to point to the proper IP address, and that you 
don't ever hard-code the IP address into anything (which, you shouldn't 
ever do, anyway...  that would be piss-poor administration if you hard 
coded an IP address into anything aside from a DNS server.)

The DEVD or RMTOUTQ needs to point to the host name, of course, in DNS 
rather than the IP address.


On 6/11/2013 10:48 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I may be off base here, but do printers ever use DHCP?  If so, wouldn't
> their IP address be rather, well, dynamic?
>
> Why is it important to know their IP address?  I could imagine the network
> admin wanting to segregate printers on to their own subnet, or only allow
> the printer subnet to do certain things.  Like I think some barcode
> printers used ftp to download labels and someone may want to only allow
> ftp from some particular addresses.
>
>
> Rob Berendt