Wget, Yum and network investigation

[Tod Merley]

I regret that I originally forgot to change subject (digest title).

> >
> >
> > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:47:37 +0100
> > From: "antonio montagnani" <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Wget, Yum and network investigation
> > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <4c37b6af0602231447p44562489t at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > 2006/2/23, Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:27:20 +0100
> > > > From: "antonio montagnani" < antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: Wget, Yum and network investigation
> > > > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > > Message-ID: < 4c37b6af0602230927w6098941k at mail.gmail.com>
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > Hi Antonio!
> > >
> > > From the thread I do not know which of the routers you updated from
> the
> > RH8,
> > > but I would guess that it is the one you are having problems on.  That
> > is
> > > just a guess.  It may be that something related to the IPv6 stack
> > handling
> > > was not handled in the process.
> >
> > Yes...it is the updated router: but it worked for a long time with FC5
> > and I didn't have any problem at all with yum, wget....I can't
> > understand what changed
> >
> > >
> > > I would be most interested in the contents of /etc/resolv.conf on all
> > > machines.  It would be nice to know who is being looked at for name
> > > resolution.
> > >
> >
> > I will post the troubled router tomorrow morning as now I am at home.
> > Anyway this is the resolv.conf of this machine, i.e. the router with
> > no problems....
> >
> >
> > nameserver 62.211.69.150
> > nameserver 212.48.4.15
> >
> > and modprobe.conf
> >
> > alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> > alias eth1 sk98lin
> > alias eth2 hisax
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> > options snd-card-0 index=0
> > install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
> > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
> > }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> > alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
> >
> >
> > > When I troubleshot an IPv6 name resolution problem at home here I used
> > > "tcpdump -w captureFileName &" along with Ethereal to analyze the
> > tcpdump
> > > capture files.  When I did it some of the packets were truncated so it
> > would
> > > be best to use -s 0 (capture packets of arbitrary length) or -s
> > 1515(capture
> > > packets as large as the max Ethernet frame) in the tcpdump command.
> > >
> > > In my case, turning off IPv6 (accomplished, I believe, by adding
> "alias
> > > net-pf-10 off" to /etc/modprobe.conf and rebooting) did resolve the
> > problem
> > > on a single FC4 machine.  Since I had an Ubuntu machine on the same
> > network
> > > and could see no way to effectively turn off IPv6 on that machine I
> > simply
> > > routed nameservice arround the DSL modem which appeared to have
> problems
> > > with IPv6 name serving (probably a frimware problem) and the problem
> > went
> > > away.  Of course to do this there needed to be an alternative
> nameserver
> > in
> > > /etc/resolv.conf.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Ipv6 has been turned off on office router, but no improvement.What went
> > wrong??
> > >
> > > Tod
> > >
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Antonio
> > Skype : antoniomontag
>
>
> Hi again Antonio!
>
> I just have a bit of a thought here.  You may have simply a problem with
> the
> URL names requested by yum.  Is it possible that somehow the repositories
> have been re-named (their URLs) and that was not completed in the update
> process.  If I try to nslookup or whois the long repo URLs you sent in
> your
> first message they fail.  Are the addresses differant (the requested URL's
> yum is attempting to access) on the two machines?  If I point firefox at
> the
> addresses it finds them - perhaps the "redirection" switch in a yum config
> file is set differently.  Just bits of thoughts.
>
> I must say I am curious what kind of Internet access you have over there?
> How do you get Internet to the machines?
>
> Ethereal gets down to the nitty gritty and would probably be a good one to
> do here.  Of course it takes time.
>
> Good Hunting!
>
> Tod


Just above was written last night - but under the digest title - I do that
sometimes at night.  My regrets.

Tod
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