Comment 31 for bug 987212

Hello all,

I am not sure if this answers anyone's problem: I see there are many different issues reported and I feel a bit confused, but I am posting here my case, hoping that it could help someone.

On my Ubuntu 14.04.5 system, I had problems accessing a printer via DNS-SD (Avahi).

The problem was in fact that cups could detect, but not print to, a printer without a resolvable IP address.

I could fix my problem as described in this blog post:
https://mypersonalblog1984.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/cups-unable-to-automatically-locate-printer-2/
i.e. in file /etc/nsswitch.conf, I added the "mdns" option to the "hosts" entry.