...how can I "turn off" IPv6 in the kernel to see if this helps or not?
I haven't experienced the same problem with Firefox 0.8, but maybe I'm just too old to tell the difference in speed.
Here's how you can turn off IPV6:
1. Find out your IPV6 address:
ifconfig eth0 |grep "inet6 addr:"
for example,
> ifconfig eth0 |grep "inet6 addr:"
> inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fefc:6682/64 Scope:Link
2. Remove it for that interface:
> ifconfig [interface] del [addr/prefixlen]
for example,
> ifconfig eth0 del fe80::2e0:18ff:fefc:6682/64
* You'll have to stop/restart your network services to get the IPV6 back.
As far as I know, that should remove use of your IPV6 address. However, some of the protocols might still mangle your IPV4 into IPV6 address anyway for outgoing packets. But, that's all the info I gleaned from `man ifconfig'.
]]>FireFox 0.9 has a new pref (about:config) to disable these lookups. They cannot be disabled by putting hosts in your hostsfile. Disabling IPv6 didn't work here either...
]]>Odd thing is, only started acting up when I moved to using a cable modem. Maybe a connection?
Later,
Isamoor
]]>I'm learning as I go but it appears to be a problem with sites that do have an ipv6 address, it looks like Firefox tries to also resolve the AAAA records and can not do it, so there's the delay.
The solution maybe in the nightly builds of Firefox, going to exhaust that now.
Craig
]]>Thanks!
Craig
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic … ns+resolve
Arch Linux 0.6 / kernel 2.6.6-1
Thanks,
Craig