I think that given the fact that Ubuntu is free, its pretty good for an operating system, even though sometimes it does come with hick ups. But I am sure thats something, Ubuntu developers will strive to get ironed out in the future. But like I said, its pretty good for being free.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Ricardo Fernández <kos...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've seen this behavior in quite few installation I have done; and > saying "install a DNS server/Edit sysctl.conf" should not be the answer > to fix the problem, not everybody have the skills required to do that, > and it should not be a requirement at all. I don't think this could be > fixed for karmic at this point but it should be fixed for lucid, > otherwise the "common" users (not experts) will get tired of using > "software" that doesn't work (They can't browse the web the way they > like). So far I just disable IPv6 in firefox after installing ( > network.dns.disableIPv6 ), thats quite enough to make most users happy. > > -- > [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second > delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in “glibc” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “glibc” source package in Lucid: Confirmed > Status in “network-manager” source package in Lucid: Invalid > Status in “glibc” source package in Karmic: Confirmed > Status in “network-manager” source package in Karmic: Invalid > Status in “glibc” package in Fedora: Confirmed > > Bug description: > In Karmic, DNS lookups take a very long time with some routers, because > glibc's DNS resolver tries to do IPv6 (AAAA) lookups even if there are no > (non-loopback) IPv6 interfaces configured. Routers which do not repond to > this cause the lookup to take 20 seconds (until the IPv6 query times out). > -- Dmitriy Mestetskiy -- [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
