Yum Weird Message

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I ran into this exact issue last night –

http://www.iotti.biz/?pC3

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.

7 thoughts on - Yum Weird Message

  • 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

    “¿No será acaso que esta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?” (Mafalda)

  • The issue is the yum server was down, so IPv4 didn’t work.

    Once that server was back up (third party repo) it of course worked no issue.

    The issue is the error message, while a technically correct one, is one that is not very user friendly and can be confusing to people who are not dual-stack.

    It could be improved.

  • The place to complain about this is the Fedora list since what CentOS
    has comes from them by way of RHEL. They, Fedora, are not apt to pay you any mind because they have already abandoned yum and are going with a new package manager named dnf soon to be appearing in a system near you.

  • Amen. I concur. ‘ln -s’ is incredibly useful – it solves problems quickly, efficiently and effectively.

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