I currently get a Network is unreachable error to any request I’m making with python. No matter if im using the urllib library or the requests library.
After some more research its likely that its being caused by an incorrect setup ipv6 tunnel, which seems to be still active:
$ ip -6 addr show
$ ip -6 route
default dev wlan0 metric 1
Some context: I’m running Archlinux and updated the system today, although there didnt seem to be any special updates today related to python. I’m also running this under a virtualenv, but other virtualenvs and using my Python outside the virtualenv also have the same problem.
I’m using a VPN, but also without the VPN I get the same error.
I also tried restarting the PC, haha that normally helps with any problem lol but also didnt help.
I got a feeling it may be Archlinux related but I’m not sure.
This is what I tried before to setup a ipv6 tunnel:
sudo modprobe ipv6
sudo ip tunnel del sit1
sudo ip tunnel add sit1 mode sit remote 59.66.4.50 local $ipv4
sudo ifconfig sit1 down
sudo ifconfig sit1 up
sudo ifconfig sit1 add 2001:da8:200:900e:0:5efe:$ipv4/64
sudo ip route add ::/0 via 2001:da8:200:900e::1 metric 1
Also used this command:
ip -6 addr add 2001:0db8:0:f101::1/64 dev eth0
Update 3 after removing line of ipv6 in my /etc/systemctl.conf, some urls started working:
>>> urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 418, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1207, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable>
>>> urllib2.urlopen('http://baidu.com')
<addinfourl at 27000560 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x7f4d1fed5e50>>
This is the error log from ipython.
In [1]: import urllib2
In [2]: urllib2.urlopen('http://google.com')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
URLError Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/samos/<ipython console> in <module>()
/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py in urlopen(url, data, timeout)
124 if _opener is None:
125 _opener = build_opener()
--> 126 return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
127
128 def install_opener(opener):
/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py in open(self, fullurl, data, timeout)
398 req = meth(req)
399
--> 400 response = self._open(req, data)
401
402 # post-process response
/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py in _open(self, req, data)
416 protocol = req.get_type()
417 result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
--> 418 '_open', req)
419 if result:
420 return result
/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py in _call_chain(self, chain, kind, meth_name, *args)
376 func = getattr(handler, meth_name)
377
--> 378 result = func(*args)
379 if result is not None:
380 return result
/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py in http_open(self, req)
1205
1206 def http_open(self, req):
-> 1207 return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
1208
1209 http_request = AbstractHTTPHandler.do_request_
/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py in do_open(self, http_class, req)
1175 except socket.error, err: # XXX what error?
1176 h.close()
-> 1177 raise URLError(err)
1178 else:
1179 try:
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable>
I can access google.com normally from a web browser and im pretty sure the network is reachable.
Are you sure you are not using any http proxy server to get to internet?
Try changing the network settings in your browser to no-proxy and check if it is still connecting to internet.
And if you are using proxy ( assume proxy address as http://yourproxy.com) then try doing this to check if this solves the issue.