Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (382 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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> On 2012-05-08 13:56, Per Jessen wrote:
> > Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > Well, I still don't see that it makes a difference. Wrt zypper, IPv6
> > is tried when IPV4 isn't available.  The end result is the same = no
> > download.
>
> Sometimes zypper tries an IPv6 address, when there is another server
> that has IPv4. This is wrong.

Yes, that ought to be a bugreport. 

> > Anyway, it's not up to you to tell an application which addresses to
> > look up and how.  If you really want to reject all DNS replies for a
> > AAAA query, maybe iptables can help.
>
> Some applications have indeed a switch to tell them to use only IPv4.

Yes, although mostly network oriented apps where it is more important. 

> Zypper does not. As zypper does not, I search for ways to fool zypper
> into not using IPv6, like not getting IPv6 responses from the DNS
> system.

Well, I can only say that I have never had any such IPv6 issues (and
yes, everything here is enabled for IPv6). 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (20.4°C)

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