Problem connecting to a software origin

[maiqiang]

Hope I've placed this in the right forum, but I don't really know where the problem lies.

For the first time, using 12.3, when I tried to update today using either Yast 2 or zypper I get this message for each repository:

Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_12.3/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable

Other programs using the internet are connecting with no problems.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[maiqiang]

A little clarification: by "for the first time today" I mean this hasn't happened before.

[vazhavandan]

maiqiang wrote:
>
> Hope I've placed this in the right forum, but I don't really know where
> the problem lies.
>
> For the first time, using 12.3, when I tried to update today using
> either Yast 2 or zypper I get this message for each repository:
>
> Download (curl) error for
> 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Stable/openSUSE_12.3/repodata/repomd.xml':
> Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to
> 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable
>
> Other programs using the internet are connecting with no problems.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
close YaST
open terminal / konsole and run the commands

sudo zypper clean
sudo zypper clean --all
sudo zypper ref -f

re-open YaST and check whether it works now
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[wolfi323]

Maybe there is a problem with the mirror you get redirected to (or somewhere along the route)?

Just try again later. Maybe it works then again.

[DenverD]

On 07/22/2013 10:14 AM, vazhavandan wrote:
> Failed to connect to
> 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable

that is an IPv6 address--is your networking system and ISP capable of
using IPv6 addresses?

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dd

[wolfi323]

On 07/22/2013 10:14 AM, vazhavandan wrote:
> Failed to connect to
> 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable

that is an IPv6 address--is your networking system and ISP capable of
using IPv6 addresses?

That doesn't matter.
It's just that the server has IPv4 AND IPv6 addresses which zypper all tries, but it only prints the error message for the LAST address it tried (this is a limitation of curl IIANM).
So it did try the IPv4 address first and that also failed.

[robin_listas]

On 2013-07-22 12:06, wolfi323 wrote:
>
> DenverD;2573658 Wrote:
>> On 07/22/2013 10:14 AM, vazhavandan wrote:
>>> Failed to connect to
>>> 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable
>>
>> that is an IPv6 address--is your networking system and ISP capable of
>> using IPv6 addresses?
>>
> That doesn't matter.
> It's just that the server has IPv4 AND IPv6 addresses which zypper all
> tries, but it only prints the error message for the LAST address it
> tried (this is a limitation of curl IIANM).
> So it did try the IPv4 address first and that also failed.

Possibly, but that means that the real error is hidden.

I would try manually the same download with curl to find out the
previous errors. Or, read the log.


But guessing that the OP is somewhere in China, I thought they used IPv6
there, as IPv4 addresses are scarce for them.


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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)