On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 05:13:59PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > Back in February I ran across a note on the Debian Wiki that turning > off ipv6 would speed up Iceweasel which is a real dog on dialup. With > that in mind I put this 'net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 = 1' in > /etc/sysctl.conf. > Setting it to 0 and rerunning 'sysctl -p' got my fetchmail/exim4 > connection working again. > > Now I guess I need to figure out if I can tell exim not to use ipv6 > and if so how.
root@/deb73:~> ed /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf #dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' root@/deb73:~> update-exim4.conf root@/deb73:~> service exim4 restart now exim4 NOT listening on ::1:25 only 127.0.0.1:25 root@/deb73:~> ed /etc/sysctl.conf net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 = 1 root@/deb73:~> sysctl -p Sent myself emails through my ISP both as root and mike. Rebooted just to double check and am able to retrieve mail so I think the problem is really solved and Iceweasel won't be slowed down by checking for nonexistant ipv6 traffic. Thanks again to you friendly helpers, Mike -- Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140605231030.GA3708@playground