Weird network problem

[staticsafe]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 05:19:39AM +0200, poma wrote:
> On 26.05.2013 17:35, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> …
> > 'Could not get metalink
> > https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f17&arch=x86_64
> > error was
> > 14: curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org; Name or
> > service not known"'
> 
> curl -4
> "https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f17&arch=x86_64"
> 
> man 1 curl - resolving
> 
> /etc/yum.conf
> ip_resolve=4
> 
> man 5 yum.conf - ip_resolve
> 
> > Thunderbird still needs three manual attempts to connect too (as you can
> > see, it does work eventually).
> 
> network.dns.disableIPv6;true
> about:config - Preferences/Advanced/General/Config Editor
> 
> System wide:
> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
> append … ipv6.disable=1
> 
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> linux …	ipv6.disable=1
> 
> 
> poma
> 

Er, why are we disabling IPv6?

OP can you try this in your terminal:

dig google.com
and
dig mirrors.fedoraproject.org

What sort of results do you get?
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