On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:03:24 +0200 "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > That is a common myth. If your computer doesn't have any IPv6 > connectivity, all is fine. The web browser will fallback to IPv4 > immediately (*), without sending out any IPv6 datagrams first.
Ok, I suppose the explanation wasn't factually exact. > If your computer does have IPv6 connectivity, but it's broken > (i.e. you have a gateway, but eventually packets are discarded), > you see the IPv4 fallback after the IPv6 timeout. The IPv4 connection in > itself then would be fast. I think it's what most users experience when they are talking about this problem. It manifests itself on many Linux setups. Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
