LPD printing crash

From: pawel (kaacper_at_icom-dv.pl)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:07:25 +0200

Hello All!

 I'm quite new to linux and looks like I can not manage to solve it on my
own!

 Recently I have installed suse 9.1. Also I have installed network printer
(LPD).
 Then, I have installed samba and made the printer shared.

 I was able even to print from windows box.
 Everything seemd ok....but..

 From time to time LPD daemon starts to scan localhost which generates HUGE
log file (/var/log/messages)
 This LPD activity takes 100% cpu power and practically crashes whole
system!
 Log file is fulfileld with following entries: (every line differs only in
port number which grows by one)

 ..
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server lpd[1959]: connection from 127.0.0.1
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server SERVER[12367]: Dispatch_input: bad request line
'POST / HTTP/1.1' from 127.0.0.1 port 50000
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server lpd[1959]: connection from 127.0.0.1
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server lpd[1959]: connection from 127.0.0.1
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server SERVER[12367]: Dispatch_input: bad request line
'POST / HTTP/1.1' from 127.0.0.1 port 50001
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server lpd[1959]: connection from 127.0.0.1
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server lpd[1959]: connection from 127.0.0.1
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server SERVER[12367]: Dispatch_input: bad request line
'POST / HTTP/1.1' from 127.0.0.1 port 50002
  Sep 29 16:59:48 my_server lpd[1959]: connection from 127.0.0.1
  ..and so on..

  restarting lpd daemon helps for another several hours....

 what can be the reason for that??

 Greets, Pawel.