DNS resolution delays (Re: Disabling IPv6)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:32:52PM +0200, Ecmel Ercan wrote:

> I am using stock Mozilla Firefox.
> 
> With ipv6 enabled, firefox says "Resolving www.ubuntu.com" and waits for 9
> (nine) seconds before the statusbar message changes to "Waiting for
> data.." and then page loads.
> 
> With ipv6 disabled, I even do not see the "Resolving.." message which
> means it resolves less than 1 (one) second.
> 
> Command line tools such as "host" command is not effected though.

Ah, I see.  I did not realize that it was specific to firefox.  Have you
found any other applications which exhibit the problem?

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 - mdz