On 2018-05-18 20:07, James Knott wrote:
On 05/18/2018 02:01 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The only thing that might be an issue is if IPv6 is enabled on the local network, but there is no IPv6 connection to the Internet. In that instance, a app might receive an AAAA record from the DNS and try to access the IPv6 address, even though it can't be reached. This is common in Spain, and the OP is here now.
What is common in Spain?
What you said. IPv6 enabled on the machine or network, yet no IPv6 to the outside. And a "host" query would return both IPv6/4 addresses, and the software would try the "6". It happened with zypper some years ago. Telcontar:~ # host download.opensuse.org download.opensuse.org has address 195.135.221.134 download.opensuse.org has IPv6 address 2620:113:80c0:8::13 Telcontar:~ # When there was a problem with the first address, zypper automatically tried the second one, and reported an IPv6 related error, like no route to host, when the real error was a different one with the IPv4 host. Several people had to disable IPv6 support entirely on their Linux machines. I found that the gai.conf change worked sufficiently for me.
What do you have in gai.conf?
The default file supplied by openSUSE, except that line I posted.
When I look at mine, every line starts with # and so is ignored. It also says the purpose of that file is to overwrite the defaults.
Same here, except that line. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)