Re: Debian repos via ipv6

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

> Alex Samad put forth on 1/5/2010 4:28 PM:
> > Hi
> >
> > I seem to have great dificulty access the debian repos via ipv6
> > Connecting to ftp.au.debian.org (2001:388:1034:2900::25)
>
> That's because ftp.au.debian.org doesn't support IPv6 downloads.
>
> According to this http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full none of  
> the
> Australian mirrors support IPv6.  Below is a list of mirror sites  
> supporting
> IPv6, compiled from the URL above.  Hope you find this useful.

Another approach would be to turn off IPv6 on your box. Then aptitude  
will not have to go thru the timeout before it tries IPv4.

Rick