Disable ipv6 module

Andreas Mueller mailinglists at andreas-mueller.com
Mon Jun 12 22:28:31 UTC 2006


Michael H. Warfield wrote:
[...]
> 	BTW...  I just noticed that it seems in the last few weeks (or,
> maybe the last couple of months) the default got changed for the
> network preference.  Before, if IPv6 was available and a site had
> both an IPv6 address and an IPv4 address, IPv6 would be used
> preferentially over IPv4.  This was good.  I often see BETTER latency
> between the US and Europe on IPv6 than on IPv4 (thanks to some v6
> backbones out there plus cleaner routing).  Lately though, I see that
> the preference has been switched and it will choose the IPv4 address
> over the IPv6 address if a site has both.  :-(  So, when I browse to
> www.kame.net it says I'm connecting over IPv4 now, instead of IPv6,
> and all I see is the static Kame turtle.  If I connect to
> www.sixxs.net, or IPv6style.jp, or DeepSpac6, they all report an IPv4
> connection.

No problems here with IPv6, I can see the dancing turtle, www.sixxs.net 
reports my IPv6 address and so on. Maybe there is a routing problem on 
your or your ISP's side?

Regards,
Andreas.




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