YaST under openSUSE 12.1 does not allow entering IPv6 addresses as DNS server addresses

English Network/Internet
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As the title says.

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On 2012-02-13 12:56, nlovric wrote:
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> As the title says.

So?

You could explain more. Or enter a bug directly.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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What is there to explain? It doesn’t allow me to enther the “:” character and, therefore, I can’t enter IPv6 addresses.

Where do I “enter a bug directly” - do you mean file a bug report or do you mean manually edit /etc/resolv.conf (I did that, already, but YaST may overwrite it when I change something else)?

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Ok, I found the bug report area.

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:06:03 +0530, nlovric
<nlovric@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

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> What is there to explain? It doesn’t allow me to enther the “:”
> character and, therefore, I can’t enter IPv6 addresses.
>
> Where do I “enter a bug directly” - do you mean file a bug report or do
> you mean manually edit -/etc/resolv.conf- (I did that, already, but YaST
> may overwrite it when I change something else)?
>

there’s one commented line that yast keeps in /etc/resolv.conf in order to
determine if it was changed manually. (can’t quote that line now, since i
don’t have it anymore.)

the comment mentions (or it least it used to) that, if you want to change
the file manually, you should remove that line, so yast won’t change your
changes.

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phani.

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Ok, I figured it out: it was a VeNCrypt keyboard problem. My connection keeps breaking, so maybe my connection broke, I reconnected without changing the keyboard to English (United States), I edited the DNS IPs with YaST, the connection broke again, I reconnected, set the keyboard to English (United States), and started successfully entering “:” into Terminal, making it seem like YaST didn’t allow me to enter “:” into a DNS servers’ IP address field.

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On 2012-02-13 13:36, nlovric wrote:
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> What is there to explain? It doesn’t allow me to enther the “:”
> character and, therefore, I can’t enter IPv6 addresses.

Where? I don’t have a Xtall ball.

And then it was your keyboard…

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)