(I am not subscribed to this list. Please Cc me when replying.) Hello,
I have IPv4 only connectivity, and IPv6 is entirely disabled in my systems, by aliasing "ipv6" to "off" in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and by blacklisting "ipv6" in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. The IPv6-related entries in /etc/hosts have been removed. However, if I use a Debian archive mirror with IPv6 addresses, aptitude sometimes tries to reach that mirror (for package list updates or package downloads) via IPv6, fails with a message like "could not open socket", and does not re-try on other (IPv4) addresses. Thereby the entire download operation fails. This doesn't happen every time; the choice of the address to download from seems to be somewhat random. I don't know if this also affects apt-get, because I generally don't use apt-get, and the problem is hard to reproduce. However, I have no other IPv6-related problems on my systems. (I mainly use the GNOME desktop.) Is it possible to prevent aptitude from trying IPv6? -- Vasiliy Faronov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
