[Bug 24828] Re: IPv6 should be disabled by default

[Trent Lloyd]

So the way to fix the problems with an upcoming technology is to supress
it? Thats silly.. Disabling it by default out of the box also does not
aid adoption.

As far as I can see, this is a limited issue to those with "broken"
routers, probably 98% of devices on the market have no problems with
this.

Windows Vista is also shipping with IPv6 enabled by default, perhaps
this will help weed out the devices which don't do what they are
supposed to do and violate the DNS specifications.

It is unfortunate that this is the case, the only solution that I would
personally like to see is some kind of attempt at detecting a "broken"
router, this could perhaps be achieved by doing a lookup on ubuntu.com
for IPv4 only, if that succeeds, try an any lookup and if that is met by
serious delays offer the ability to disable it, but I'd love to know
exactly how many users are affected by this issue and how much worth
there is in spending developer time on this (of course, I'm sure the
Ubuntu developers would *consider and discuss* accepting a proper well
formed and tested patch that did this) -- perhaps a simple FAQ entry
would suffice.

Could those with this problem please tell me what modem
manufacturer/model devices you have (and what your dns servers are set
to) so I can investigate this further and determine 100% if it is the
modem dns servers, or the ISPs servers, etc, if I can login to a box
with this problem it would be great...

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IPv6 should be disabled by default
https://launchpad.net/bugs/24828