[plug] Fedora - BAH!!!

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 21:01 +0900, Chris Griffin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Richard Meyer
> <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>         
>         On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 09:15 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
>         > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 12:52 +0900, Richard Meyer wrote:
>         > > Now that I've caught everyone's eye, I have a problem with
>         Fedora 10.
>         > >
>         > > I'm giving it a try, because I'm a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE
>         user who is
>         > > disappointed (nice way to put it) with 11.x. Since the
>         latest Linux
>         > > Format had a Fedora 10 DVD attached and they gave it
>         10/10, I decided to
>         > > give it a go.
>         > >
>         > > Firstly Firefox couldn't find anything out there on the
>         web, not even
>         > > the Fedora.org site. I could ping, tracepath, etc, so I
>         knew the network
>         > > was basically sound. I managed to fix this with a google
>         and using
>         > > about:config and changing the network.dns.disableIPV6
>         setting to true.
>         >
>         > So you left ipv6 enabled at install because you have an ipv6
>         network?
>         
>         No I left it enabled because I didn't see an obvious way to
>         turn it off
>         in an unfamiliar distro. Secondly I wouldn't have disabled it
>         anyway
>         since SUSE also enables it by default, but doesn't show this
>         behaviour.
>         >
>         > >
>         > > I still cannot see the software repositories (or
>         suppositories) as I'm
>         > > starting to think.
>         > >
>         > > Anyone with a clue, who will lend it to me? I'll return it
>         only slightly
>         > > used, I promise.
>         >
>         > You should log a bug, how else will the maintainers know
>         about the
>         > problems?
>         >
>         > Ian
>         
>         I have since found a mention of this problem, so it is already
>         known, I
>         just haven't found a solution.
>         
>         It seems my search for TOPD [1] will continue.
>         
>         Cheers
>         
>         [1] The One Perfect Distro. (C) me!
>         

> 
> 
> Care to share the fix, I too have had similar problems.
> 
> Chris Griffin

Um, I did give the fix I found - you go into Firefox and in the URL
space enter "about:config and changing the network.dns.disableIPV6
setting to true." As I quoted.


-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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