[15408] in Athena Bugs
Re: Printer problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Aug 21 21:55:37 1997
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:55:35 -0400
To: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3145] in hesiod requests"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
[Thanks for reminding me!]
| This means that after the power hit last week, the printer came up
| before the bootp server, and so it couldn't get its configuration
| file. If you powercycle them, they should be fine.
This really is an HP firmware bug -- it should try to bootp/tftp
it's config over a long enough interval that the machine has time
to boot before it gives up. In a power failure, printers are virtually
guaranteed to come back before servers.
--jhawk
