possible bad ipv6 mirror

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Jan 15 01:51:44 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> said:
> IP: 2001:620:0:8::20
> 
> yum has been attempting repeatedly to use this IP for updates. It 
> responds to pings, but not to HTTP requests. telnet IP 80 or firefox 
> does not get a webpage.

Works for me (both HTTP and FTP), although neither Firefox nor Lynx
would open it by IP "http://2001:620:0:8::20/", only by name
"http://mirror.switch.ch/" (bug, or can you not access by IP with
IPv6?).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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