[nmglug] DSL and Mepis problems on laptop

[Lee]

IPV6 was indeed the culprit. I found out that I can disable IPV6 by 
typing about:config in the mozilla address bar, selecting the line 
"network disable ipv6," right-clicking, and changing the value from 
"false" to "true." Ditto for Firefox. Of course, this still left Kmail 
and Konqueror with the problem, but this can be corrected by adding the 
line

export KDE_NO_IPV6=1

to the KDE startup file (kdestart.)/

/These fixes should work regardless of distro, I think. They worked on 
mine, anyway.

Thanks for steering me to the IPV6 issue.

Regards,

Lee

Valentin Guillen wrote:

> Lee wrote:
>
>> You are correct. I performed the test which you describe and the 
>> sites will come up immediately if I use the IP address rather than 
>> the URL. But why do I only experience this problem with the 2.6.7 
>> kernel, and what, if anything, can I do to correct it?
>
>
> I'm not sharp enough to know if it is actually kernel related, but I 
> believe that it's not.  In my SuSE versions, the issue was that the 
> default installation was configured to use IPv6 instead of IPv4.  The 
> Qwest ActionTec 701 DSL modem seems to gag on IPv6.  The kernel 
> versions probably are configured differently.
>
> My solution was to reconfigure my system to not use IPv6.  Quite 
> honestly, I don't recall which two config files I changed.  I have 
> previously posted the solution here on this listserv.  The listserve 
> archives should have those posts archived.  I got the information 
> originally from both the SuSE knowlegebase, and from the SuSE usenet 
> newsgroup.
> groups.google.com gives me these hits when I query  'SuSE IPv6 DNS'  
> These hits at that site give me these among others:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/novell.support.suse.linux.professional/browse_thread/thread/5a14417d734eac40/7389e5e7bd747eab?lnk=st&q=SuSE+IPv6+DNS&rnum=3#7389e5e7bd747eab 
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/65e6af2483e35fe9/2c687cf668a02ea7?lnk=st&q=SuSE+IPv6+DNS&rnum=4#2c687cf668a02ea7 
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/43d3e56f40db64d9/bcf1ae96bf07e525?lnk=st&q=SuSE+IPv6+DNS&rnum=10#bcf1ae96bf07e525 
>
>
> Now, because you're not using SuSE, the name or location of the config 
> files may vary, but the actual causes and solution should be the same 
> in nature, in each distribution.
> Hopefully this will point the way to the resolution of this issue, 
> which is very easily remedied.
> Good Luck!
>
> vg
>
>