[NTLUG:Discuss] Newbie Question re: LPD Initialization and Local Host Bad Message

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:25, Fred Hensley wrote:
> Greetings All,
> 
> After a few months of immersing myself into the Linux world and meeting
> several of you at the last few NTLUG meetings, I am finally at wits end
> on one problem whose solution escapes me.  Neither my brand new "Running
> Linux" book nor some net searches have helped thus far.  This latest
> issue has also caused strange 3-d images to appear on my forehead
> curiously resembling letters and outlines from my keyboard... <g>
> 
> Two weeks ago, on good advice from some of you, I punted on my Debian
> Woody installation, and installed RedHat 8.0 (with kernel
> 2.4.18-24.8.0).
> 
> My PC is locally connected, via LPT1, to an HP Laserjet 4.  Also, I
> utilize AT&T as my cable internet provider, and am dynamically assigned
> a new IP address on each system reboot.
> 
> The issue centers around two seemingly related symptoms as follows:
> 
> 1.  Upon startup, LPD does not initialize, but instead give me the error
> "Host Name x1-6-00-90-c9-04-42-7e bad".  Therefore the line printing
> daemon cannot start, and my printer is effectively offline.

is that before or after you make a connection to the internet? 

if you use enter
hostname
what does it tell you? 

Can you ping the name that hostname returns? 

I am guessing that you get a dhcp address assigned. 

LPD is trying to use that as your hostname and it's 
not resolving correctly. 

jack