Trouble Getting Started

[nxsfan]

Pogoplug Newbie, bought POGO-E02 from buy.com for $35.

1. Setup with official service.
2. Enabled SSH.
3. Logged in, attached a 16GB flash drive and followed the instructions here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... 2-pinkgray - Everything goes smoothly. Reboot and login with root:root

Things start to go wrong:
4. Update pacman: pacman -Sy
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ':: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from Arch Linux ARM.com : No address record
')

Seems that mirror is out of date: nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Hash out "Server = http://Arch Linux ARM.com/arm/$repo"
Add: "Server = http://archlinux.supsec.org/$repo/os/$arch" (found this mirror by googling the error)
"pacman -Sy" executes successfully!

5. Install samba server ala: http://archlinuxarm.org/support/guides/ ... ions/samba
"pacman -Sy samba avahi"
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'error: target not found: samba')
Ah. Same for "pacman -Sy transmission-cli"

I guess the mirror I used was wrong. If I go to http://archlinuxarm.org/arm/ I can see the repo, but setting
"Server = http://archlinuxarm.org/arm/$repo" does not work.

Then I noticed something strange. Ping archlinuxarm.org:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'PING archlinuxarm.org (206.217.130.189) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from archlinuxarm.org (206.217.130.189): icmp_req=1 ttl=54 time=76.8 ms
64 bytes from archlinuxarm.org (206.217.130.189): icmp_req=2 ttl=54 time=77.5 ms
')

If I browse on my laptop to the core.db file (http://archlinuxarm.org/arm/core/core.db) and wget it works fine, but if I then wget the same URL via my SSH session:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Resolving archlinuxarm.org (archlinuxarm.org)... failed: Name or service not known.') WTH?

Infact, I can't even wget google.com. What am I doing wrong? Sorry if I'm being stupid.

EDIT:

HA! This seems to be an IP4 versus IP6 problem. Specifying "wget -4 archlinuxarm.org/arm/core/core.db" does work. I still need help to understand why this is happening.

Temporary work around was to add: "206.217.130.189 archlinuxarm.org" to my /etc/hosts file.