>Juergen Krauss wrote: >> I want to use Fedora Core3 behind a dlink DSL-504T dsl router. >> >> Installing fedora was a breeze, however, internet connectivity is not >> straightforward due to several IPV6 related issues. >> >> After giving my fedora box a static (local) IP and turning off IPV6 in >> /etc/modprobe.conf I can surf the net with firefox, but using lynx or >> trying to update via yum or up2date times out. Looking at ethereal >> captures when running yp2date, lynx or yum, there are ipv6 dns queries >> (AAAA ...) which are resolved as address 1.0.0.0, and that obviously >> times out. It seems to be a bug in the DSL-504T, >> but would one solution be not sending AAAA requests, or translating them >> to ipv4 requests (with iptables? I am new there)? How can I do that? > >One workaround you could use would be to set up a caching nameserver on >your FC3 box and use that to do your DNS lookups instead of the DSL-504T. > >Paul. Works very well. Thanks, Juergen
