No IPv6 traffic

[Mike McGrath]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto wrote:

> When capturing the traffic with Wireshark there is no IPv6 traffic at
> all. When I set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true I can see all IPv4 in
> Wireshark. This is Fedora 10 64.
>
> While it is easy to solve it for Firefox there are many services that
> can't connect even if I disable IPv6 in the system. One symptom is Yum
> has to try repetitively until it finds a suitable host:
>
> http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/fedora/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror.
>
> Another is that the weather applet and folding at home can't connect.
> When I disable IPv6 in the system the applet connects but Yum behaves
> the same (multiple tries) and still folding at home can't connect.
>
> My name servers are set to opendns:
>
> # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Generated by NetworkManager
> nameserver 208.67.220.220
> nameserver 208.67.222.222
> nameserver 10.1.1.1
>
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=d2.localdomain
> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
>
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> # Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit
> Ethernet controller
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=none
> DNS1=208.67.220.220
> DNS2=208.67.222.222
> DNS3=10.1.1.1
> GATEWAY=10.1.1.1
> HWADDR=00:21:97:00:79:21
> IPADDR=10.1.1.110
> NETMASK=255.0.0.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Ethernet
> USERCTL=no
> IPV6INIT=yes
> NM_CONTROLLED=yes
> PEERDNS=yes
>
> I have another machine, F11, behind the same ADSL router, Dlink DSL
> 500B, without problems.
>
> Any ideas?
>

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your email, you actually have IPV6
configured and are trying to use it?  Does it only not work against fedora
services or does it not work against anything?

	-Mike