{Solved} Re: DNS delay with FireFox on FC4

[Glenn Meyer]

The first option below immediately fixed it.  THANK YOU!!

Øyvind Stegard wrote:

> Glenn Meyer wrote:
>
>> I've noticed on two separate installations that there is a 
>> significant delay for DNS resolution using either FireFox or 
>> Thunderbird.  Other utils like wget, ping, and others do not have 
>> this delay (sometimes like 20 seconds) for DNS resolution.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?  Anything I can do about it?
>>
> You could try disabling IPv6 DNS lookups. It's in the Firefox config, 
> open "about:config" in the location bar. Then put "dns" into the 
> config option search bar. You should see an option named 
> "network.dns.disableIPv6". It's set to 'false' by default, which, I 
> _think_, makes Firefox try IPv6 first, then fallback to IPv4 if the 
> name server doesn't reply properly. Anyway, try setting this option to 
> 'true', and see if that helps.
>
> You could also try disabling IPv6 globally by adding the line
> alias net-pf-10 off
> to /etc/modprobe.conf, and then reboot.
>
> Øyvind.