[plug] Fedora - BAH!!!

[Chris Griffin]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>wrote:

>
> 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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>
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Hmmm, apologies, I seem to have missed that one.
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