On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 12:06 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote: > Yes transparent Squid is running...but why wget with --inet4 flag is > o.k ?? When using Squid, *it* normally resolve addresses by itself (it doesn't use your DNS server, nor your hosts file, etc.). If it can't do IPv6 then that's the cause of the problem you're trying to fix. A very quick Google using these two keywords: IPv6 squid, looks like it can't do IPv6 properly yet (there's some quite old messages about enabling it in the developer version, that don't look too promising, and nothing new written about it). I don't know if they've resolved that yet, and my FC4 installation of Squid has no obvious mention of IPv6 in the documentation. But a quick test for you would be to stop going through your transparent proxy, and see if it starts working, then. If you find wget works with and without IPv6 when used directly, but only IPv4 through Squid, then that pretty much nails it. I generally find proxies to be quite evil, or sites are so hostile that caching proxies can't do their job well. Transparent proxying is the worst, as it imposes a proxy on you. You can't easily avoid it if it causes a problem--and many do--you're almost forced to use it. I gave up using my (non-transparent) proxy ages ago, the only thing I found it beneficial with was Windows updates for many boxes. The first one fetched the files from the WWW, the next one used the cached ones. It made short work of maintaining them. But it did me no good for general browsing, as most things I browsed were only browsed once, or not cacheable, etc. And it completely knobbled the windows anti-virus softare, AVG, it always failed to get its updates when trying to go through the proxy. Do you know what the difference is between IPv4 and IPv6? It's a different addressing/networking scheme. I'd say IPv6 is still under development. It's in use in a few places, but it's not what you'd call mainstream. Other than some test set-ups, I don't think you'll find anything that requires IPv6 yet, there'd be little point. So many people would be excluded. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
