[CentOS] Yum Weird Message

[Marcelo Roccasalva]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote:
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> I ran into this exact issue last night -
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> http://www.iotti.biz/?p=433
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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

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Marcelo

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