IPv6

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sun Oct 31 20:36:20 UTC 2004


I did not experience this while using epiphany in t2 - or epiphany (or
put-any-other-browser-here) in fc2. but mozilla has always had this
issue...

lør, 30.10.2004 kl. 15.32 skrev Maciej Żenczykowski:
> Don't know about FC3, was just performing some maintenance routine work on 
> an FC2 box and ran across this again.  Don't currently have the HDD 
> space nor the bandwidth to give FC3 a test drive, especially seeing how 
> rapidly the ISOs are changing lately (nb. why no jigdo releases?).
> 
> Anyway seeing how this is trivial to fix, and not being sure whether it 
> was fixed or not, decided to bring this up to the attention of the list.
> 
> Cheers,
> MaZe.
> 
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> 
> > Also in FC3? I thougth this problem went away when FC3 came (comes).
> > 
> > l?r, 30.10.2004 kl. 14.24 skrev Maciej Żenczykowski:
> > > Just a quick idea.
> > > It would probably be useful to include a global 'disable/enable IPv6' 
> > > option in the installer.
> > > Having IPv6 enabled causes Mozilla DNS lookups to take ages in some areas 
> > > - depends on DNS servers involved (basically it has to wait for IPv6 
> > > resolution to timeout).
> > > This can be achieved by 'alias net-pf-10 off' in /etc/modprobe.conf or by 
> > > physically removing the IPv6 addresses from the interfaces (ip addr del 
> > > ::1/128 dev lo; ip addr del <something> dev eth0;)
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > MaZe.
> > 
> > 




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