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On 6/25/2013 18:31, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:48:12AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote |
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>> On Tue, June 18, 2013 17:00, Joseph wrote: |
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>>> Every time I compile a package I get a message: |
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>>> |
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>>> sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support: |
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>>> Address family not supported by protocol |
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>>> |
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>>> What is it looking for? |
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>> |
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>> Do you have IPV6 enabled in your kernel and for the network interfaces? |
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>> Simple and quick way to check, do you see IPV6-addresses when you type |
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>> "ifconfig -a" in a console? |
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>> |
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>> I get this warning for all services that have IPV6 support on systems that |
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>> don't have IPV6 enabled. |
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> A few years ago the developers, "in their infinite wisdom", decided to |
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> enable the ipv6 USE flag by default. I found out "the hard way", when |
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> internet-enabled apps like Firefox sat there, spinning their wheels for |
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> a minute, before timing out the IPV6 lookup and falling back to IPV4. |
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> Since then, I have always done a --pretend update run and check the |
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> output, before doing the real update. And I've switched to beginning my |
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> USE variable with "-*". |
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> There is the option of setting USE="-ipv6" the more timid users. I |
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> don't understand the point of defaulting to IPV6. The vast majority of |
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> Gentoo users probably still run IPV4-only. |
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FYI, this is no longer an issue as br |
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