On of the biggest german ISPs, T-Online, is planing ipv6 support in near future.
> As far as I know DNS resolving was slightly different with IPv6, so it could
> be that Mozilla does it wrong when using IPv6, or right and there's no valid
> IPv6 capable DNS server configured.
Mozilla does it wrong. Mozilla also has a problem with automatic proxy configuration files. Mozilla also is not able to use proxys for ipv4 but not for ipv6...
]]>As far as I know DNS resolving was slightly different with IPv6, so it could be that Mozilla does it wrong when using IPv6, or right and there's no valid IPv6 capable DNS server configured.
If Arch was really an on the edge distro it would already use Linux 2.6, udev and unicode/utf-8 everywhere by default.
]]>Why ipv6 is enabled per default in archlinux? Well, this is a "on the edge" distro and not a "new stuff, I don't need, so people who need it, who cares" distro.
There are people out there (like me) that heavily rely on ipv6 and for those disabling ipv6 is not a workaround, it's just like plugging off the ethernet cable to speed everything up.
I understand it is a useful workaround for people without ipv6, but I blame the mozilla people for that problem. You perhaps wonder, but these long timeouts also occur on a ipv6 capable system + connection. They occur on every damn host that can't deal with ipv6 (and there are many). Cool apps like SSH don't have that problem and still are able to prefer ipv6 connections if they are possible. Sadly Mozilla Firefox doesn't :-/
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Ford Prefect
dnsmasq -f -r /etc/ppp/resolv.conf -I ppp0
-A /googlesyndication.com/127.0.0.1
-A /doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1
-A /valueclick.com/127.0.0.1
The -f is because this pc does NAT and DNS for a win2k pc, it seemed a good idea after reading the manpage. The interesting part are the -A options, that way you can redirect whole domains, something that's not possible with hosts as far as I know, because the subdomain is different everytime and bypasses the hosts file. If you want to get rid of all Google adds at once then use -A /googlesyndication.com/127.0.0.1, the same for all other (although more) annoying ad sites.
]]>Back to the topic--->I installed dnsmasq to give it a try w/ Arch & it helped a ton. Idk wtf was up w/ it & FC2, but they didn't get along well together. Perhaps, FC2 uses some propreitary scheme for dns lookup & they conflicted...but it's helped a lot...I would try pacman -S dnsmasq. As a sidenote, I applied all the about:config tweaks to Mozilla a moment ago & it's actually fairly snappy now. I use it occasionally for streaming stuff w/ Realplayer10, as firefox has some kinda problem w/ RP10 & it crashes when trying to view a real stream (such as the vids @ Fox news or cnn, etc).
]]>As a side note, on my pc by the time that Win2K fully booted I can be in Linux browsing with Firefox (after manually logging in). I really have no idea why people say that Windows boots faster, perhaps they use Gnome or KDE? ;-)
]]>I'm using dnsmasq with static IPs, so not the dhcp features, and it speed up dns resolving in Firefox a lot because of the caching. Only way it can be slower is when you use bad and other dns servers than normally, or perhaps when configuring it wrong so that it does weird dhcp things. Or it was a buggy version..
Yeah that's true & I didn't give it much of a chance b/c Firefox was doing fine w/ FC2 before I installed it, so I didn't tweak it much...just looking for that extra bit of speed... I might give it a try in Arch b/c it seems, for some odd reason, I can find things easier & stuff works more as it should w/ Arch vs. FC2 (perhaps that's b/c so much has not already been done for me).
]]>AMLUG 5.1 on a Qbic 3401 with integrated 8139too attached to a linksys RT314 router running dhcp
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