Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[George OLson <grglsn765@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/27/2011 08:02 AM, Michael Powell wrote:

> One possible, which is easy to check, is if you have dual IP stacks, that is
> IPv6 and IPv4 both present Firefox may be attempting to look up IPv6 AAAA
> DNS records first. It should fall back automatically.
>
> You can check this by opening a blank tab and placing about:config in the
> URI bar. Hit return and in the Filter type in dns. Double-click on the entry
> network.dns.disableIPv6 and it will toggle from the default of 'false' to
> true.
>
> Another way to test if it is DNS related is to simple place an IP address in
> the URI bar instead of domain name.  You can either use nslookup or dig to
> locate the IP for a web site domain name.
>
> -Mike

Wow, that was it. It is like having a completely new browser. Thanks!!

Can you give a "nutshell" summary of the difference between IPv6 and 
IPV4 so that I understand what I just did when I adjusted the 
about:config file?

George
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