Your message dated Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:14:02 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#557003: libc6: DNS queries are extremely slowed by ipv6
has caused the Debian Bug report #557003,
regarding libc6: DNS queries are extremely slowed by ipv6
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.10.1-7
Severity: important
When using Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Synaptic and other applications which
use DNS, I always have to wait a long time (2 to 10 seconds) for a host to
resolve (i.e. messages like "Resolving host", "Looking up http://whatever";,
etc).
I always thought that this was a problem of my internet connection.
I could never track the origin of it until finally like 2 hours ago I stumbled
across this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/417757
To test if I had this problem, I opened up Firefox and got to about:config,
entered ipv6 and set "network.dns.disableIPv6" to false. Immediately, every DNS
query was extremely fast and browsing was up to par to my high speed internet
connection.
To do a definite test, I added "ipv6_disable=1" to my kernel command line and
after that all the applications above were having much faster DNS queries.
This is a rather serious bug that I have been experiencing ever since upgrading
to testing (right after lenny's release), and always blamed on my ISP/wireless
connection/configuration/etc, while finding it strange that every Mac or
Windows PC near me using the same connection appeared to be much faster on DNS
queries.
I guess there must be much more users affected by this and like me, they have
no clue why.
It may be caused by a recent version of libc6, because the bug above is marked
as "karmic regression" (the latest ubuntu is the karmic one, 9.10) and a friend
of mine who is using lenny doesn't appear to have the same problem.
Pardon me if this as already been reported, I searched around but could not
find a Debian version of this bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libc-bin 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Binaries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library
Versions of packages libc6 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
pn glibc-doc <none> (no description available)
ii locales 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: National Language (
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
I reinstalled my system (upgraded to amd64) and the problem seems to be gone.
It may be that my old system was rotting, or the problem is i386
specific. Either way, since nobody else complained, I'm closing this
bug.
Thank you for your patience and help.
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