https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685627 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685627#c0 Summary: While ipv6 can be disabled for the browsers with difficulty yast2 always uses it causing dns problems for many users Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.4 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: a.johnw@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20110222 Firefox/4.0b12 The usual way of disabling ipv6 was to use kernal load appends. This doesn't seem to do anything any more. The kde flag also does not stop konqueror from using it. Firefox has to be stopped from it's own configuration facility. Despite the kernel load appends and a change to sysctl.conf which does prevent Konqueror from using it YAST2 continues to use ipv6. This causes dns problems on many isp's when updates etc are run and they take for ever as a result - 18hrs and it didn't complete. This made worse by the fact that yast2 assumes the server is busy and extends the retry delay times. While all of this is going on both firefox and konqueror working on ipv4 can access and download the update files with ease. There are too many to use this as an update fix. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Clean 11.4 install from downloaded dvd 2. Try updating via a network that has problems with dns via ipv6 - many do 3.Read the forums and see how often this crops up, google brings up 500,000 hits many asking for fixes on a number of suse releases. Actual Results: DNS problems prevent a full update from occurring in anything like a reasonable time. Expected Results: There should be a method within yast of disabling ipv6 on all web traffic even from itself. Users can't be expected to find the existing methods which do not bear any relationship to previous ones so info on the web is misleading. Yast seems to be applying patches as they are loaded. I assume that nothing really happens until it has all of the updates it needs otherwise this might lead to a broken system. As YAST stands if an update is provided I could not be sure of being able to install it with yast as it can take hours to even check for repository updates. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.