Rodney Baker wrote:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:57:21 xPol wrote:
I have just successfully upgraded from 11.4 to 12.1 I cannot update my system any more, because repositories are claimed to be unreachable:. Here is the report:
Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/content': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to ::1: Network is unreachable
Yet network is up an i can update suse 12.1 from other computers of the same local network. It seems that destination download.opensuse.org has not been translated into its IP address. Any ideas?
thank you Pol
Curl is trying to connect to an IPv6 address (that is what the ::1 is). Are you on a network that uses (or tunnels) IPv6? If not, you probably need to disable IPv6 so that it uses IPv4 by default, rather than trying IPv6, timing out and then (supposedly, although maybe not in this case) trying IPv4 as a fallback.
How to disable ipv6? (I have enver enabled such feature)
Alternatively, it may be that curl is configured to use a proxy server (its configuration is separate from your desktop proxy server settings - I
I do not think curl use a proxy;any way i have never configured curl and is has been working for years. thank you Pol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org