Comment 172 for bug 417757
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| dhenry (tfc-duke) wrote Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups | #172 |
"options single-request" in /etc/resolv.conf works, but it has two drawbacks:
1) The first time you want to access a website, it will be slow.
2) when the process terminates, i.e. when you close the application or when it ends by itself (web browser, apt-get, etc.), you lose all your "fast DNS resolving" stuff. When you reopen the browser, it will be slow again. Take apt-get: you run it for updating or installing some packages, and it will close itself at the end of the operation, and all is lost. Next time you run apt-get, it has to resolve everything again with the slow method...