On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, John DeCarlo wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Chris Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
There was a thread on Mac-L a while back where people were having
some slow internet response times that were fixed by disabling the
"Configure IPv6" in the Network control panel of Mac OS X from
"Automatically" to "Off".
Does this mean the OS X's IPv6 implementation leaves something to be
desired?
Probably. My guess it is similar to the problems various Linux versions
had as well.
It turns out that having IPv4 and IPv6 coexist together is tougher in
practice than most people thought. I expect Vista will figure it out soon.
I know a year or so ago, it was a reasonably big problem for Linux.
So I expect that Vista is just 6 months to a year behind OS X and Linux in
working out the IPv6 coexisting with IPv4 issues.
Hi John,
I think you hit the nail on the head. There's nothing in a hostname that
tells you whether it's supposed to be an IPv4 address or IPv6. Firefox is
first trying to do a lookup via IPv6. That will fail immediately if your
OS is configured to not do IPv6 (as described above for Mac OS).
Here's a link with a way to disable IPv6 in just Firefox...
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2005-08/0939.html
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