On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 04:07:32PM +0530, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > After updading to 7.21.2-2 now curl fails to connect on hosts which > > have too IPv6 addresses. Example is rmadison using qa.debian.org or > > security.debian.org: > > > > # curl http://security.debian.org > > curl: (7) Failed to connect to 2001:8d8:2:1:6564:a62:0:2: Network is > > unreachable > > Thanks for reporting this observation. What was added in curl 7.21.2-2 > compared to -1 is the support for c-ares. Searching the web, I found > this email > > <http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2009-08/0014.html> > > which throws some light into the problem. > > I wonder what is the best way to resolve the issue. Revert the change and reopen the other bug. This can break apt's https downloader and cupt, resulting in users of them not being able to update their systems without special effort. When changing the next time, do it in experimental. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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