Basil Chupin wrote:
On 27/08/11 12:35, George OLson wrote:
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?
Why not try the wikipedia? eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6
BC
Or better yet, try IPv6. It's easy to do, even if your ISP doesn't yet provide it. You can do this with "tunnnel brokers", which enable you to send & receive IPv6 encapsulated in IPv4. I use gogonet, http://gogonet.gogo6.com and another is he.net and there are many others. With gognet, I installed a client on my Linux firewall. It'll also work with NAT. He.net is better if you have a router that supports 6in4 tunnelling and has a static IP. With gogonet, I have a subnet with about a trillion times more addresses than the entire IPv4 address space (I've already used up 7 of them <g>). With he.net, you get a trillion, trillion addresses in a subnet. My ISP has promised IPv6 by the end of the year and all those LTE & 4G phones will require IPv6 for best performance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org