CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

[Timothy Murphy]

Björn Persson wrote:

> 1: Check that Cups is actually listening on the network. Run this command
> as root on the machine where the printer is:
> 
> netstat --inet --inet6 --listen --program --numeric | grep cupsd
> 
> Does it say "192.168.x.y:631" or "127.0.0.1:631"?

Isn't it easier just to say 
	telnet 192.168.a.b 631
Doesn't this tell you if you are connected to the CUPS server 
much more simply?