RE: All printers and their IP Addresses

[Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>]

That is also true - and today I learned something. That you can use a name on a remote outq. We have always used the IP but the IP was a static assigned DHCP address so never changes. Now if I could only get the server group to name printers with 10 character names. Then the OUTQ name and DNS name and the Windows queue name would all match :) 

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: All printers and their IP Addresses


True, but even so, if you hard-code the IP address into your DEVD or RMTOUTQ, you've defeated the point behind using DHCP in the first place.


On 6/11/2013 11:52 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
> DHCP does not need to mean dynamic. DHCP can assign a static based in MAC address. So the printer would always get the same IP every time it boots.
>
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> 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.)
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> The DEVD or RMTOUTQ needs to point to the host name, of course, in DNS rather than the IP address.
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>
> 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