[BlueOnyx:20679] Re: Yum update on 5209R looking for IPv6??

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Colin,

> We have one VPS which is failing to update:
> 
> Chris Gebhardt picked up that it was looking for an IPv6 address:
> 
> http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.3.1611/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno<http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.3.1611/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: %5bErrno> 14] curl#7 - "Failed to connect to 2604:ec80:1::65: Network is unreachable"
> 
> This 5209R VPS is on a Virtbiz Aventurin{e} host rather than one of mine (hence Chris’ involvement).
> Mine are updating fine! ☺

Yeah, I have seen this before. A quick solution would be doing this
inside the VPS:

echo "ip_resolve=4" >> /etc/yum.conf

That way Yum will only resolve IPv4 IPs.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber