"No destination host name supplied by cups-browsed for printer, is cups-browsed running?" in RHEL 7.7 and later versions

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Printers are disappearing from CUPS clients that are using BrowsePoll to set up shared print queues.
  • Printers are becoming disabled with the following messages from lpstat:

    printer PR2PR disabled since Thu Dec  5 09:13:17 2019 -
        No destination host name supplied by cups-browsed for printer "pr2pr", is cups-browsed running?
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, and 8
  • Using cups-browsed for print sharing and/or high-availability printing

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