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I am wondering why firefox would not load any url but would load by IP addresss, yet links worked with url. I fixed the problem by logging into my modem and finding the DNS servers it uses and put the DNS servers into /etc/resolve.conf.head, but I am wondering why the links program was able to load urls before this fix. I am using ethernet and dhcp. I have a dsl modem, but I have not taken any networking configuration steps involving ppp. This is a question more out of curiosity and wanting to understand why the fix worked.
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I actually have no idea, but from googling, I think it may have been an issue with ipv6.
I couldn't get pidgin or pacman/yaourt to connect to the internet earlier today, but firefox could. I had the network.dns.disableIPv6 key in about:config in firefox set to true, and I think that might have been why firefox was working.
Perhaps these are relevant?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12517
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756
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I actually have no idea, but from googling, I think it may have been an issue with ipv6.
I couldn't get pidgin or pacman/yaourt to connect to the internet earlier today, but firefox could. I had the network.dns.disableIPv6 key in about:config in firefox set to true, and I think that might have been why firefox was working.
Perhaps these are relevant?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12517
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756
Thanks. You're exactly right. It was a DNS issue relating to IPV6. I found a arch linux wiki entry on how to disable ipv6 so I don't have to worry about that happending with other prorams.
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