Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1210 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:54:44PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Saturday, 2008-11-01 at 13:35 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
>
> > > Download (curl) error for 
> > > 'http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/gconf2-branding-openSUSE-2.24-6.1.noarch.rpm':
> > > Error code: Connection failed
> > > Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:708:10:9::20:1: Network is 
> > > unreachable
>
> ...
> > Yes, that's an ipv6 network address.
> >
> > Almost all ISP don't support it (yet) unfortunately nativly.
> > You can het a free tunnel however from tunnelbroker.net, together with
> > 2^64 public addresses. (and your not stuck to a specific provider
> > anymore)
>
> As I don't need ipv6 now, I'll just store that info for the future :-)
>
> > In your case it's funny that you endup with _only_ an IPv6 address.
> > Most sites that publically support ipv6, have both 1pv4 and ipv6
> > addresses tied to their name.
> >
> > Furthermore, this adress in neither (reversed) resolvable nor ping6-able
>
> Yep, it is funny. Another redirector bug? A curious one if it is.

Nonsense. It has nothing to do with the redirection, if your client
isn't able to properly resolve / use a host name for whatever reason.

Peter
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