You shouldn't need to do anything. It should be no problem that you
can't reach www.python.org through IPv6, since all your applications
will immediately fall back to using IPv4 on their own.
It may be that some application misbehaves, i.e. it tries to get an
IPv6 connection, which it can't, and then gives up. This would be
very bad programming, and the authors should never had added IPv6
support to that application in the first place (applications that
predate IPv6 only use gethostbyname, only find IPv4 addresses, and
never even try IPv6).
I've filed a Debian bug-report against Dillo which is the
problematic app. My home ISP (SBC Global) apparently doesn't
support IPv6, or if it does, something fails between them and my
laptop (perhaps my router). I think the easiest solution for now
is just to disable IPv6 in my /etc/modprobe.d/aliases as I've
seen suggested elsewhere until either my ISP routes IPv6 packets
properly, or the Dillo bug is fixed.
Thanks for your help!
-tkc
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