Mikkel,
I flushed firewall rules and still get the same error message. Maybe it
has something to do with xinetd.
Still clueless,
Lance
On 04 Apr 2001 15:10:51 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >
> > Status Information:
> > sending job 'Lance@localhost+567' to lp@localhost
> > connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> > cannot open connection to localhost - Connection timed out
> > Make sure LPD server is running on the server
> >
> > What's this "cannot open connection to localhost?"
> >
> > I block this port with my firewall.
> > i.e. iptables INPUT -p tcp --dport (printer spool port) -j DROP
> > This wouldn't have anything to do with it would it?
> >
> >From the error message, it looks like it is trying to send the print job
> through localhost for some reasion. (I do not know why.) That being
> the case, your firewall rules will indeed prevent that. One way around
> that is to set up a rule at the start of your firewall rules to let
> everything in that comes from the loopback interface. I do not know how
> to do it with IP tables, but for IP chains, something like:
>
> ipchains -A input -i lo -j ACCEPT
> ipchains -A output -i lo -j ACCEPT
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