Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 17 October 2011 22:14:16 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:

> > > My provider does not provide IPv6 Internet access. But zypper stubbornly 
> > > tries to connect the update server
> > > by IPv6 address:
> >
> > I think this happens because the DNS gives back IPv6 addresses. I don't
> > know if it is possible to configure bind not to return such addresses.
>
> Would be nice to get the root cause and not some workaround to move the
> problem into the future.
> Every app is allowed to try to use IPv6 if the target has an IPv6
> address. After that basically two types of issues can happen:
>
> - the app does not retry using IPv4 at all -> the app needs to be fixed
> - the network is misconfigured and the app has to wait for a timeout
>   until it can try IPv4
>
> So the basic question is in this case. Is there an IPv4 connection at
> some point (after timeouts) or none at all?

None at all (with zypper or yast).

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