Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Rick Thomas a écrit : > > My point is that by setting your MTU to 1280, you have done *your* > part. By doing that you have just used a side effect of the MTU as a workaround to hide the problem originating at the other end, for TCP connections only. Nothing has been fixed. > At least you can

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-09 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Rick Thomas writes: On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Rick Thomas a écrit : On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: The RFCs say that any conforming implementation MUST handle an MTU of 1280, and may not necessarily handle anything larger. What is your point in me

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Rick Thomas a écrit : On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: The RFCs say that any conforming implementation MUST handle an MTU of 1280, and may not necessarily handle anything larger. What is your point in mentionning this re

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Rick Thomas a écrit : > On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > > The RFCs say that any conforming implementation MUST handle an MTU of > 1280, and may not necessarily handle anything larger. Wha is your point in mentionning this requirement ? Do you mean that the server should n

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: It could be an MTU/MSS issue. See the recent discussion in the debian-ipv6 list with subject "schein.debian.org" [2001:4f8:8:36::6]. Many thanks. Changing the MTU to 1480 as sug

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-03 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Jeffrey B. Green a écrit : > > > > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a > > bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured > > hang while attempting an update on security.debian

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Jeffrey B. Green a écrit : > > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I > believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while > attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by > deconfiguring the IPv6 address, then the upd

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:00:17 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > > Doing the update from the firewall works, a conversation of 29 packets > in the captured pcap file. There are still 404s but none of the out of > sequence/lost sequence messages. Hmmm, now to see which of the packets > are being dro

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:00:17 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > > Doing the update from the firewall works, a conversation of 29 packets > in the captured pcap file. There are still 404s but none of the out of > sequence/lost sequence messages. Hmmm, now to see which of the packets > are being dro

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:18:17 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > Chris Brennan writes: > > > > The 404's you were getting, I got them as well on my Debian 6 VPS. > > No firewall in place on he VPS > > (yet, as I am still setting it up) but every time I run an update, > > I see the 404's against s

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-01 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Chris Brennan writes: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like an official bug, then let me know. This sounds like you might want to contact debian-admin

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > > > > So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like > > an official bug, then let me know. > > This sounds like you might want to contact debian-admin ;) > The 404

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > > So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like > an official bug, then let me know. This sounds like you might want to contact debian-admin ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:15:13 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 -0400 > "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > > > > When I check with tcpdump to be sure the firewall isn't the > > culprit, I find that all of the packets that reach the firewall > > also make it to the server an

Re: Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
David Erwin writes: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:50:48PM CEST, "Jeffrey B. Green" said: Hi, I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IP

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 -0400, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I > believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while > attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by > deconfiguring the IPv

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Tue, 31 May 2011 09:50:48 -0400 "Jeffrey B. Green" wrote: > > When I check with tcpdump to be sure the firewall isn't the culprit, I > find that all of the packets that reach the firewall also make it to > the server and a conversation of 20-22 packets occurs (20 on one > server, 22 on a diffe

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:50:48PM CEST, "Jeffrey B. Green" said: > Hi, > > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I > believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while > attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by > decon

aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-05-31 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi, I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by deconfiguring the IPv6 address, then the update goes through fine. When I check with

Apt-get hangs

2004-07-21 Thread David
I have some additional information to add to my previously reported problem which is that "apt-get install whatever" often hangs. I have now experienced this problem on three different computers and it makes upgrading packages nearly impossible so I must find a solution. I believe the problem is