[Solved] yaourt / AUR is extremely slow [due to IPv6]

Question

I have a weird problem with yaourt for some days. Whatever action I do with it (installation of package, upgrade etc) it takes ages. For example, when I install a package it needs around 2 minutes to only fetch the PKGBUILD file. It seems that the problem is specific to yaourt or to its connection with AUR, since when I do 'yaourt -Syua' the upgrade process is smooth for the pacman repos, but it stalls when it reaches a package from AUR. Also I checked the journald logs, but everything seems normal. Since it is the only connection problem that I have (the Internet connection functions properly and also the AUR site is launched on time on my browser), does anyone have a suggestion of what it might be?
Last edited by kostas213 (2013-08-12 13:14:52)

Answer 1

If you are using IPv6 connectivity,
Currently aur.archlinux.org IPv6 address can not seem to connect, with priority to use IPv6 Address Server until the connection over time, will jump back to the IPv4 address, it will be a little longer time spent
I was directly in the / etc / hosts to add the following content, so you do not use IPv6 address
78.46.78.247 aur.archlinux.org aur
host aur.archlinux.org
aur.archlinux.org has address 78.46.78.247
aur.archlinux.org has IPv6 address 2a01: 4f8: 120:34 c2 :: 2
aur.archlinux.org mail is handled by 10 mail.archlinux.org.
/usr/bin/curl -v -O https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ya/y … urt.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0* About to connect() to aur.archlinux.org port 443 (#0)
*   Trying 2a01:4f8:120:34c2::2...
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:15 --:--:--     0* Connection timed out
*   Trying 78.46.78.247...
* Connected to aur.archlinux.org (78.46.78.247) port 443 (#0)