Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 08:54 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > If you don't have a public IPv6 address, then you won't try IPv6, so > it won't cause any delay. I can't speak for Yum, but if I try to listen to streaming media via mplayer, the first thing it tries to do is make a connection using IPv6, wai

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: Network Manager Edit shows my IPV6 settings as "blank." Am I suffering this IPV6 delay? Perhaps I should remove Network Manager from my fixed computers? If you don't have a public IPv6 address, then you

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/29/2012 09:54 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: Network Manager Edit shows my IPV6 settings as "blank." Am I suffering this IPV6 delay? Perhaps I should remove Network Manager from my fixed computers? If you don't have a public

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: >Network Manager Edit shows my IPV6 settings as "blank." Am I >suffering this IPV6 delay? Perhaps I should remove Network Manager >from my fixed computers? If you don't have a public IPv6 address, then you won't try IPv6, so i

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 06/29/2012 12:52 AM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 18:03 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: It looks as if yum chooses IPv6 sources when available, over IPv4. Who knew? There will be a few things that prefer it, because it's supposed to be better... ;-) and it's the replacement for IPv4 ("repl

Re: Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-28 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 18:03 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > It looks as if yum chooses IPv6 sources when available, over IPv4. Who > knew? There will be a few things that prefer it, because it's supposed to be better... ;-) and it's the replacement for IPv4 ("replacement" not "fallback"). When tr

Well-hidden yum feature in fc17

2012-06-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
I noted that my upgrade of fc17 was running very slowly this morning. I was getting only about 65-68kB download, and things were pretty slow. Since this is a regular thing, I checked a few things, and found out that the upgrade was going over IPv6! It was slow because my connection with a 2nd IS