Firefox Loses DNS in F10

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 22:21:28 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:31 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:11 -0800, gary artim wrote:
> >   
> >> seems there is a ipv6 slowdown with comcast's dns servers. if you use
> >> firefox
> >> you can stop ipv6 lookups by opening a tab in firefox and typing:
> >>
> >> about:config
> >>
> >> type:
> >> network.dns.disableIPv6;false
> >> set it to true and your dns lookups will take off.
> >>     
> >
> > Interestingly, my FF has this set to True already, and I'm sure I never
> > touched it.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >   
> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.  Patrick O'Callaghan
> 
> That change in Firefox about:config did it.   I have pulling my brains 
> out since last Tue. over that frustration.
> 
> Poc, I don't think we can trust you to get into ABOUT:CONFIG

Huh?

poc




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