DNS lookup problem with up2date / yum

[Paul Howarth]

Juergen Krauss wrote:
> I want to use Fedora Core3 behind a dlink DSL-504T dsl router.
> 
> Installing fedora was a breeze, however, internet connectivity is not
> straightforward due to several IPV6 related issues.
> 
> After giving my fedora box a static (local) IP and turning off IPV6 in
> /etc/modprobe.conf I can surf the net with firefox,
> but using lynx or trying to update via yum or up2date times out. 
> Looking at ethereal captures when running yp2date, lynx or yum, there
> are ipv6 dns queries (AAAA ...) 
> which are resolved as address 1.0.0.0, and that obviously times out. It
> seems to be a bug in the DSL-504T,
> but would one solution be not sending AAAA requests, or translating them
> to ipv4 requests (with iptables? I am new there)? How can I do that? 

One workaround you could use would be to set up a caching nameserver on 
your FC3 box and use that to do your DNS lookups instead of the DSL-504T.

Paul.