Re: Stretch net install on EeePC - unable to resolve mirror host address

[Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Reco wrote:

> > rprice@kananga:~$ ip -6 ro l
> > fe80::/64 dev wlan0 proto kernel metric 256  pref medium
>
> Now *that* actually means it should be impossible for this host to
> connect to 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7.
>
> So either we have a little wonder here, or … do you have DHCP6 client
> installed there by chance? Installer most certainly should include one,
> and that could explain the difference in behavior between your current
> host and d-i.

The stretch i386 installer provides a dhcp client: /sbin/dhclient which is 
called by NetworkManager.

rprice@kananga:~$ systemctl status NetworkManager
● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-02-23 12:03:54 CET; 1 day 2h ago
     Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
 Main PID: 372 (NetworkManager)
    Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
           ├─372 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
           └─472 /sbin/dhclient -d -q -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf /var/run/dhclient-wlan0.pid

Roger