Here's the second half of the solution. It's a patch that makes Mozilla Firefox use AI_ADDRCONFIG when calling getaddrinfo(). Note that the Mozilla release drivers have already approved this patch for inclusion on the 3.6.x branch, and it has already been commited to Firefox 4.0 (it's included in beta11).
Tore ** Patch added: "Make NSPR use AI_ADDRCONFIG if requested by caller" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/417757/+attachment/1843558/+files/mozilla-use-ai-addrconfig.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 Title: [regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs