<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Richard Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meyerri@westnet.com.au">meyerri@westnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 21:01 +0900, Chris Griffin wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Richard Meyer<br>
> <<a href="mailto:meyerri@westnet.com.au">meyerri@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 09:15 +0900, Ian Kent wrote:<br>
> > On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 12:52 +0900, Richard Meyer wrote:<br>
> > > Now that I've caught everyone's eye, I have a problem with<br>
> Fedora 10.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I'm giving it a try, because I'm a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE<br>
> user who is<br>
> > > disappointed (nice way to put it) with 11.x. Since the<br>
> latest Linux<br>
> > > Format had a Fedora 10 DVD attached and they gave it<br>
> 10/10, I decided to<br>
> > > give it a go.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Firstly Firefox couldn't find anything out there on the<br>
> web, not even<br>
> > > the Fedora.org site. I could ping, tracepath, etc, so I<br>
> knew the network<br>
> > > was basically sound. I managed to fix this with a google<br>
> and using<br>
> > > about:config and changing the network.dns.disableIPV6<br>
> setting to true.<br>
> ><br>
> > So you left ipv6 enabled at install because you have an ipv6<br>
> network?<br>
><br>
> No I left it enabled because I didn't see an obvious way to<br>
> turn it off<br>
> in an unfamiliar distro. Secondly I wouldn't have disabled it<br>
> anyway<br>
> since SUSE also enables it by default, but doesn't show this<br>
> behaviour.<br>
> ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > I still cannot see the software repositories (or<br>
> suppositories) as I'm<br>
> > > starting to think.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Anyone with a clue, who will lend it to me? I'll return it<br>
> only slightly<br>
> > > used, I promise.<br>
> ><br>
> > You should log a bug, how else will the maintainers know<br>
> about the<br>
> > problems?<br>
> ><br>
> > Ian<br>
><br>
> I have since found a mention of this problem, so it is already<br>
> known, I<br>
> just haven't found a solution.<br>
><br>
> It seems my search for TOPD [1] will continue.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
><br>
> [1] The One Perfect Distro. (C) me!<br>
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</div></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Care to share the fix, I too have had similar problems.<br>
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> Chris Griffin<br>
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</div>Um, I did give the fix I found - you go into Firefox and in the URL<br>
space enter "about:config and changing the network.dns.disableIPV6<br>
setting to true." As I quoted.<br>
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.<br>
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.<br>
William Pitt, 1783<br>
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Linux Counter user #306629<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Hmmm, apologies, I seem to have missed that one.<br><br>