Ubuntu
eglibc package

  1. Bug #417757
  2. Comment #236

Comment 236 for bug 417757

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Yermo (yml-yml) wrote : Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

@Laurent Yes, I was thinking the same thing since it's now fixed for me.

However, if you do some searches, even in the Ubuntu forums I think, you'll find dozens if not hundreds of posts from people saying they turned off IPV6 but still had slow lookups/connectivity. There was one thread somewhere where it was mentioned that this was due to Ubuntu/Linux now implementing some standard (I don't know which one) more rigidly than many router/switch manufacturers. That was the reason I thought to upgrade the firmware in the DI-707.

Doing a quick search I find:

http://superuser.com/questions/67686/internet-very-slow-when-upgrading-to-ubuntu-9-10 (3rd comment)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8758456 (5th post)