[ale] network lag?

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Sun Aug 31 08:13:21 EDT 2008


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deritchie at earthlink.net wrote:
> make certain you have turned off ipv6 DNS resolution if you are running Firefox. 
> "about:config" and the search for "ipv6" and then toggle the value of 
> network.dns.disableIPv6 to true from false (discovered this one day while
> using wireshark to trace network traffic and saw IPV6 queries going out -
> this fixes a large number of delays.) You will typically see a multi-second 
> pause when initially resolving DNS because the IPV6 query occurs first,
> times out, and the IPV4 query occurs and succeeds (usually)...
> 

nice idea, but I already had it set to true..but this suer sounds like
the right path to look at... it sure looks like an icedove IPV6 issue,
or networking.. wonder if Opera does rss...


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Paul Cartwright
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