Why is Web Browsers so slow at Resolving Hosts

[jim tate]

Randy Schrickel wrote:

> You might also want to look at something totally different (sort of) 
> which fixed the same problem for me.
>
> Turns out IPV6 was configured on my net interface, and the dns lookups 
> were going through 3 or 4 failures before falling back to IPV4 and 
> succeeding. If you ethereal the nslookup, IPV6 replies are marked with 
> an "AAAA", while IPV4 are labeled "A". ifconfig on your interface will 
> also show an IPV6 configuration.
>
> How to turn off IPV6? That's what I asked in a different thread on 
> this list ("disable IPV^?"). The answer is to add a single line to 
> your /etc/modprobe.conf file, right after the "include 
> /etc/modprobe.conf.dist" line. The line you need is this:
>
> alias net-pf-10 off
>
> You may need to reboot after that, not sure if a "service network 
> restart" will do the trick.
>
> Hope that helps, and thanks to Brian Krahmer for suggesting it!
> randy
>
>
That line in /etc/modprobe.conf did the trick, Mozilla is fast now.
Thanks guys for the help.

Jim Tate