Re: disabling ipV6

2012-01-01 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Thanks for your time, Pascal. On 31/12/11 14:20, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Tony van der Hoff a écrit : I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's correctly set up. I'm using Thunderbird as my MUA, with an IMAP host on my VPS, smtp.vanderhoff.org. When trying

Re: disabling ipV6

2012-01-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Tony van der Hoff a écrit : On 31/12/11 14:20, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Tony van der Hoff a écrit : When trying to read or send mail I invariably get a DNS timeout: Dec 28 10:11:23 tony-lx named[1768]: error (unexpected RCODE SERVFAIL) resolving 'smtp.vanderhoff.org//IN':

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Tony van der Hoff a écrit : I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's correctly set up. I'm using Thunderbird as my MUA, with an IMAP host on my VPS, smtp.vanderhoff.org. When trying to read or send mail I invariably get a DNS timeout: Dec 28

disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I know this is a FAQ, so apologies, but after much googling I've been unable to find a remedy. I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's correctly set up. I'm using Thunderbird as my MUA, with an IMAP host on my VPS, smtp.vanderhoff.org. When trying to read or

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 28 dec 11, 10:27:33, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Well, that appears to be looking for an IPv6 address, and as my router doesn't support IPv6, it's bound to go wrong. It shouldn't, but I have encountered this with several SOHO routers. The fix is to upgrade the router firmware. The

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 11:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 28 dec 11, 10:27:33, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Well, that appears to be looking for an IPv6 address, and as my router doesn't support IPv6, it's bound to go wrong. It shouldn't, but I have encountered this with several SOHO routers. The fix is

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: I know this is a FAQ, so apologies, but after much googling I've been unable to find a remedy. I run my own caching BIND9 under squeeze, and as far as I'm aware it's correctly set up. I'm using Thunderbird as my

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 28 dec 11, 11:35:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Not sure that I understand what you mean by bypass the router; I don't use it for DNS directly, but packages have to pass through it. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the symptoms of the problem. Perhaps I have mis-diagnosed your problem. What

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 17:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 28 dec 11, 11:35:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Not sure that I understand what you mean by bypass the router; I don't use it for DNS directly, but packages have to pass through it. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the symptoms of the problem. Perhaps

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 28 dec 11, 17:43:24, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I seem to have worked round the problem by adding mail.vanderhoff.org and smtp.vanderhoff.org to my local hosts file. Not seen any timeouts since, but I don't feel it's the right thing to do... Do you get any issues with other sites?

Re: disabling ipV6

2011-12-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 28/12/11 19:40, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 28 dec 11, 17:43:24, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I seem to have worked round the problem by adding mail.vanderhoff.org and smtp.vanderhoff.org to my local hosts file. Not seen any timeouts since, but I don't feel it's the right thing to do... Do