On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alice Wonder <al...@domblogger.net> wrote: > > I ran into this exact issue last night - > > http://www.iotti.biz/?p=433 > > When a computer is connected via IPv4 but the IPv4 a repo host connects to is > not available, yum then tries the IPv6 address and will fail with a confusing > message telling you it failed to connect to the IPv6 address. > > I don't know if there is a way for yum to figure out whether the current > network connection to the Internet is IPv4 or IPv6. > > But if there is a way, it might make a usability improvement. A lot of people > have no idea what IPv6 is and would be confused. > > I was confused myself at first, wondering if DHCP pulled in IPv6 from the > router.
If your DNS answers IPv6, it will have prefence over IPv4. You can set ip_resolve=4 in your yum.conf -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que esta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
