Workaround: Cups error adding network printer - 'server-error-internal-error'

Here is a workaround to Cups errors when adding a network printer. Hopefully a real solution will follow one day. Using a GUI tool you try to add a printer. You expand the list of network printers and your printer is shown in the the. You select it and and go forward where you can give it a name you like and a location. Then after OK it says: > CUPS server error > There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'server-error-internal-error'. If the reason is a DNS problem here is what to do. Run the command line ippfind and look at the list: $ ippfind ipp://BRWBCF4D44.local:631/ipp/print Here the printer respond to a broadcast UDP with the message »my DNS name is BRWBCF4D44.local and you can contact me on that« but this is not correct. Try: $ ping BRWBCF4D44.local ping: BRWBCF4D44.local: Name or service not known The problem is that the name BRWBCF4D44.local is not known in the DNS. A quick workaround is to add this entry to your /etc/hosts file: $ echo 192.168.1.7 BRWBCF4D44.local | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts Then both ping and lpadmin will work. Try add the printer manually: $ sudo lpadmin -p My_brother -E -v ipp://BRWBCF4D44.local:631/ipp/print -L Bedroom If this work you can delete the printer again: $ sudo lpadmin -x My_brother Now you can add the printer with the GUI as expected. For some unknown reason the printer thinks the domain is .local and not .lan. The problem must be in the DNS-server some where.