Comment 8 for bug 174211

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: SMBD hangs on startup if lo is down

Alexander,

> Does Samba absolutely need to connect to CUPS over IP by default? Assuming
> there are other ways... I don't know.

Thanks, that's a good point. CUPS does have a UNIX socket that it listens on, and it probably would be better to use that instead of the IP address; if nothing else, Unix sockets have less overhead. Reopening this bug then, and updating the summary to reflect this.