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Originally Posted by mithrandir
Mike,
Here's one that the general public might not have come across and would cause erratic response. If you can supply the exact hostnames your browser is trying to load we can see if it applies.
Some places are now advertising IPv6 addresses in DNS and overly clever (That's a joke, Joyce) systems like Vista and Win7 try to use them before IPv4. I think a couple of Linux distros do it too, so M$ aren't out on their Pat Malone.
Since there are vanishingly few home routers which support IPv6 (and fewer that do IPv6 tunneled in IPv4), and there are only one or two ISPs who will route IPv6 for customers, this behaviour is at present pointless and merely slows down the connection while waiting for the IPv6 connection to time out.
Assuming you aren't doing IPv6 development you can tell the o/s to disable IPv6 with no loss of function.
When your ISP and router support IPv6 you can revisit the settings.
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew
Where is the disable IPv6 option found?
Cheers Mike