On Nov 26, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> The problem I had was a very long timeout while the IPv6 connection >> failed, leading to the perception that python.org was responding very >> slowly. Disabling IPv6 meant the client went directly to IPv4, >> bypassing the timeout. > > This is not supposed to happen. The fallback should be immediate; no > packet should be sent even to the local ethernet. So there is likely > some misconfiguration in the local network going on.
Possibly. *Probably.* However, it was only a problem for python.org. It may be that most of the other sites being accessed just didn't have IPv6 addresses, but I don't know that for sure. Doug _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
