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. -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ ****