[arch-general] IPv6 causing wget/curl to hang for a long time?

[Abdul Halim]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> That seems consistent with what I'm experiencing, this does not happen
> in my university. I get the following:-
>
> ngoonee at ngoonee-laptop ~ % wget -O - icanhazip.com
> --2011-06-06 14:21:38--  http://icanhazip.com/
> Resolving icanhazip.com... 50.56.84.181,
> 2001:470:1f10:d57:feed:beef:cafe:d00d
> Connecting to icanhazip.com|50.56.84.181|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 14 [text/plain]
> Saving to: “STDOUT”
>
>  0% [
>                                                   ] 0
> --.-K/s              59.191.194.87
>
> 100%[====================================================================================================================>]
> 14          --.-K/s   in 0s
>
> 2011-06-06 14:21:39 (650 KB/s) - written to stdout [14/14]
>
> So it looks like a problem with my ISP at home. Not surprising. Wonder
> whether its worth even letting them know. Could it perhaps be
> something set wrongly in my router? ping6 just hangs....
>

Try change to gGogle dns server namely 8.8.8.8. can you ping6
ipv6.google.com?