strange problems with Internet connection

[Lutzer]

Unfortunately after some more testing I experienced the problem several
times again. I disabled IPv6 in Firefox and systemwide (as described by
Thilo) which did not helped to get rid of the problem. Probably IPv6 is
not the reason. Some more ideas how to fix it?


Thilo Six schrieb:
> Lutzer schrieb am 14.04.2006 09:26:
>>> Great! I disabled IPv6 in Firefox and until now it seems to work! Any
>>> idea about Thunderbird; is Thunderbird using IPv6 and if so how to
>>> disable it? Are tools like ping for example using IPv6 as well? Is there
>>> a way to disable IPv6 system wide?
>>>
>>> I'm wondering how much people do have the same problem. Maybe it would
>>> be usefull to disable IPv6 by default?
>>>
>>> Thanks alot!
> 
> To disable IPv6:
> 
> edit /etc/hosts and comment out the lines like this:
> <----------------------------------------------------------
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> #::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> #fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> #ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> #ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> #ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> #ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> ---------------------------------------------------------->
> 
> 
> then edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases change it to
> <----------------------------------------------------------
> #alias net-pf-10 ipv6
> ---------------------------------------------------------->
> 
> I do not know, if there is a way to activate those settings without reboot.
> 
> If you are interested you may want to read:
> Tip: using dnsmasq
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/70473
> 
> 
> HTH Thilo
> --
> i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
> - some friend of mine
> 
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