possible bad ipv6 mirror

[Ed Greshko]

Chris Adams wrote:
> 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?).
>
>   
use http://[2001:620:0:8::20]/ as the URL ....



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