Subject: Re: PM 7500 success story & tips
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: paul <pkdb1@attbi.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/18/2002 15:14:04
Jeff Laughlin wrote:

> However when I try to get pkg_add to automatically download 
> via FTP I get the following error
> 
> bash-2.04# export 
> PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/macppc/All
> bash-2.04# pkg_add postgresql
> ftp: connect to address 3ffe:8050:201:1860:2a0:c9ff:feed:b7ea: No route 
> to host
> 
> That looks like an IPv6 address. Any clue why FTP is trying to use IPv6, 
> or how to make it NOT use it?


I'd call that a warning, not an error, but semantics aside, I'd 
like to know how to use IPv6. I have tried pinging around my other 
boxes here (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OS X) with mixed results. I have my 
doubts that my cable modem service will handle it properly. But 
just out of curiousity . . . .