unable to install/update software

[Jonathan Noack]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Noack <noackjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ronald,
> I see you replied via the archives and tried to rebuild the thread
> below.  Please copy me directly as I'm not subscribed.
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Ronald Klop
> <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Noack <noackjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> After installing a new router plus recent updates to ports I'm no
>>> longer able to install/update software in Eclipse.  When trying to
>>> select the site "http://e-p-i-c.sf.net/updates/testing", I get this
>>> message:
>>> Unable to read repository at http://e-p-i-c.sf.net/updates/testing/content.xml.
>>> Bad address
> <snip>
>>
>> The cause is this.
>>
>> Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Bad address
>> at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketGetOption(Native Method)
>>
>> So it looks likes something isn't going well in the network. Combined with
>> your new router I would look there. Is there something with IPv6 now?
>> Are you familiar with networking sniffing tools as ngrep and wireshark?
>
> The new router is an Airport Extreme.  I also considered IPv6 could be
> the problem and tried running Eclipse with
> -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true.  This didn't change the behavior.
> I'll see what I can find with wireshark.

FYI:
This was fixed by updating to openjdk6-b22_3, which traces back to
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6730740.

-Jon