On 12/28/15 15:24, Alice Wonder 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.
>
Funny that you should say that. IPv6 is celebrating it's 20th birthday.
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