what are these funny IP adrdresses? rsync error

DONAHUE · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:27 am Post subject:

ip v6 see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 3911 Location: india

wow they do exist.
thanks for the information DONAHUE

i see my dhcpd tries ipv4 first and fails to get ip then ipv6 works.
never noticed this before.

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runem · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 33

You can force portage/rsync to use only IPv6 by adding

PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="-6"

to your make.conf

I have used -4 to force IPv4 on my system.