Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2011-10-18 16:12, Per Jessen wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> > > 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:
> >
> > That's why I think that a "solution" would be telling, for example to
> > bind, that it should not give ipv6 addresses as responses for name
> > queries. That way IPv6 network is not impeded on the local network,
> > but it would be fine on internet, because it would not be attempted.
>
> It really is not an issue for the application (zypper).  An application
> that is IPv4+IPv6 capable should "just work" and be able to ignore
> whether it is one or the other network. 

Zypper can do nothing if it gets directed to IPv6 mirrors only.

I understood that zypper used metalinks, and could download from several
sources simultaneously. That if one failed, it would use another one, not
get stuck.

Maybe that is wrong?

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)
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