Ubuntu Linux - Suggestions needed

[Trent Lloyd]

Hi Roger,

Roger Jorgensen wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Andrew Alston wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> In ubuntu linux feisty release IPv6 will officially be disabled by 
>> default
>> at this point.  That is unless a solution is found within the next 48 
>> hours
>> to stop the problem of what they claim as slow fallbacks on non-v6 
>> enabled
>> networks.
>
> Uh, I´ve only had problem with ubuntu on IPv6 enabled network with 
> really slow fallback to IPv4, none on IPv4 only network. It do sound 
> to me like there are something else that is broken the way ubuntu & co 
> do things. Never had any issues like this on any other machines, FBSD, 
> old installation with really old patches to get IPv6, Mac OSX, RedHat 
> with V6 enabled etc... just acting wierd.
>
It's purely a function of totally broken DSL/Cable/Wireless/etc routers 
that do silly things when looking up AAAA records, to date I have seen

 * Returning an A record of 0.0.0.1
 * Timing out (not responding at all)

I'd be interested to know if you seem the same thing with Vista/MacOSX 
on these broken devices.

Cheers,
Trent