Thanks for the reply. I somewhat agree with you and will post a question to fedora but my concern is that curl also uses getaddrinfo and once I disabled IPv6, curl began working. It's as if wget is defaulting getaddrinfo's ai_family to PF_INET6 and never attempting PF_INET. Thanks again.
> Maybe you should file a bug with the Fedora people. I don't think Wget > is doing anything wrong in the IPv6 department. It basically calls > getaddrinfo and accepts both types of addresses (preferring IPv4 > addresses for connecting, unless specified otherwise). That > getaddrinfo should fail means something must be broken in the build or > on the installation. > > As a workaround, you can put "ipv4_only=1" to /etc/wgetrc.
