Re: Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

["Jeffrey B. Green" <jeff@kikisoso.org>]

David Erwin writes:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:50:48PM CEST, "Jeffrey B. Green" <jeff@kikisoso.org> said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I
> > believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while
> > attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by
> > deconfiguring the IPv6 address, then the update goes through fine.
>
> It might be a routing/firewall problem on IPv6 the way between you and
> security.debian.org, since it works for me.
>
> Do you succeed in browsing http://security.debian.org with IPv6 activated ?

Yes. I do a "wget" since it's a server without any windowing. Also, the 
updates/upgrades had been working just fine until this one.

I tracked the conversation at the firewall to be sure the wget was going 
through IPv6 and it was.

The Debian server it goes to is: 2001:4f8:8:36::6.

-jeff