On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 -0400, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I > believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while > attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by > deconfiguring the IPv6 address, then the update goes through fine. > > When I check with tcpdump to be sure the firewall isn't the culprit, I > find that all of the packets that reach the firewall also make it to the > server and a conversation of 20-22 packets occurs (20 on one server, 22 > on a different one). [If anyone wants to provide me with a state > transition diagram, or even a description, for the protocol aptitude > follows in doing the update, then I'd be happy to track down where > exactly in the process it hangs.] I can go back and forth with enabling > and disabling IPv6, and IPv4 always seems to work (just tried it with > one server).
I think this also happened to me just a few days ago. I couldn't reach any of the security servers and suspected it was because apt tried to reach the ipv6 server which, thanks to my ISP (grrr!), is something I still can't do :-/ How I solved it? Retrying the update command until I finally got the ipv4 server address as response }:-) > Sooooo, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like an > official bug, then let me know. There is a wishlist bug report to enable/disable ipv6 just for apt, which I think it should be something nice to have at least for this ipv4/ipv6 transtitional period that is coming... please give apt.conf.d option to disable ipv6 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611891 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.31.15.33...@gmail.com