yum and IPv6

Dawid Gajownik gajownik at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 23:44:49 UTC 2007


Hi!
	Is something wrong with my machine or yum has problems with IPv6 
connections?

[root at cyklop yum.repos.d]# LANG=C yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
ftp://ftp.ipv6.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-5, 'No address associated with 
hostname')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
[root at cyklop yum.repos.d]# host ftp.ipv6.funet.fi
ftp.ipv6.funet.fi is an alias for nic.ipv6.funet.fi.
nic.ipv6.funet.fi has IPv6 address 2001:708:10:9::20:1
[root at cyklop yum.repos.d]# LANG=C wget 
ftp://ftp.ipv6.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
--00:26:26-- 
ftp://ftp.ipv6.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml
            => `repomd.xml'
Resolving ftp.ipv6.funet.fi... 2001:708:10:9::20:1
Connecting to ftp.ipv6.funet.fi|2001:708:10:9::20:1|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD 
/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata ... 
done.
==> SIZE repomd.xml ... 1140
==> EPSV ... done.    ==> RETR repomd.xml ... done.
Length: 1140 (1.1K)

100%[======================================================================>] 
1,140       --.-K/s   in 0s

00:26:27 (36.1 MB/s) - `repomd.xml' saved [1140]

[root at cyklop yum.repos.d]#

Updated FC6, python-urlgrabber-2.9.9-2, yum-3.0.5-1.fc6 from 
updates-testing.

I searched through bugzilla but I haven't found anything interesting.

Regards,
	Dawid

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