Ok. I am pleased to say this has finally been resolved. The last few things I tried. http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Disabling_IPv6_under_a_2.6_kernel
Commenting out all references to ipv6 in hosts (shouldn't be necessary but I was desperate) #Disable IPv6 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_ra=0 net.ipv6.conf.etho.accept_ra=0 In sysctl.conf - although sysctl didn't recognise any of 'em so I doubt that was solution I think it was that first link that recommends: To disable IPv6 it should be as simple as adding the lines alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off to /etc/modprobe.d/00local (creating the file if it exists). -- [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
