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Actually, your provider did sell you crap. IPv6 will only be tried if your host has configured IPv6 connectivity and the destination host has IPv6 DNS entries.
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago
Actually, your provider did sell you crap. IPv6 will only be tried if your host has configured IPv6 connectivity and the destination host has IPv6 DNS entries. Debian mirrors generally support IPv6, so apt-get hanging probably means that the IPv6 connectivity of your provider was broken.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoThat was my thought too. IPv6 shouldn't cause hangs if it is configured correctly.
- deathanatos 9y agoI just want to emphasize this a bit: IPv6 won't cause hangs even if the connection is IPv4 only if things are configured correctly. (That said, I've seen incorrect configurations: Comcast, at one point, assigned me an IPv6 address (automatically) and led the system to believe that their was a valid IPv6 route, but proceeded to drop all IPv6 packets. This same scenario can happen on IPv4, too, and the resolution is the same: worm your way through the bowels of support until you reach someone competent.)