cant access google but ONLY from this machine

[Steven Susbauer]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:07 -0500, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:41 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> 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
>
> Why do you think this? I mean, why do you think they would "fail" and
> what do you mean by "fail"?
>
> I'm very unsure that what you say there is in any way correct. I would
> expect those digs to work perfectly on any properly set up host.
>
> Regards, K.
>


The digs will most likely work, the DNS servers will tell the records to  
any host. Trying to ping an ipv6 may make more sense, but for the majority  
of people it will always fail anyway.