cant access google but ONLY from this machine

[Wade Smart]

NoOp wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
20090512 1849 GMT-5

I took out all the IP6 listing in Network Manager a long time ago.
I have read if you remove them it makes your system faster too.

Wade

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