cant access google but ONLY from this machine

[NoOp]

On 05/12/2009 04:26 PM, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2009 2:39:03 pm Wade Smart wrote:
>> 20090512 1635 GMT-5
>>
>> I have been sitting here researching these usb wireless adapters and
>> about fifteen minutes ago I noticed that I couldnt access google. Then
>> any page I clicked from my original google search page wouldnt come up.
>>
>> I then tried another search site like yahoo thinking it was my
>> connection but it was fine. Then I tried accessing from my laptop and
>> other computers in the house and they all connect fine.
>>
>> I restarted both of my browsers (ff and opera). I dumped the cache. Im
>> rebooting now. This is a bit odd that its just my computer.
> 
> When it happened here, my laptop wouldn't go to certain places yet other 
> laptops (wireless) and desktops (wired) on the same local network could 
> connect to those places.  I brought the problem to this list a while back but 
> as soon as I discovered a fix I was set upon by several, it must be someone's 
> sacred cow.  Anyway after a few days of work I discovered the laptop would 
> work again as soon as I disabled IPv6 on it.  This is likely not fixed yet as 
> according to the list, there is no problem with IPv6 on Linux.    
> 
> 
> 

I don't recall the thread, but an easy way to see if you are indeed
having ipv6 issues is to 'dig' an ipv6 domain to see if it works:

$ dig AAAA ipv6.google.com
or
$ dig AAAA www.kame.net

If those fail then you may need to disable. See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IPv6