[Ubuntu-list] Ubuntu 6.06 installation/address resolution

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:34:47 +0800
Dave Dartnall <darts at dialix.com.au> wrote:

> 	LIVE DISK: Firefox appears to find web addresses, (changes from 'looking 
> for xxxx' to 'connecting to xxx' but times out). Can ping the address. 
> Using 'about:config' and killing ipv6 networking makes it work.

I wonder if either your ISP or your adsl router has problems with IPv6.

You can disable IPv6 system wide, apparently, by doing this:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/bad_list

type in

alias net-pf-10 off

Then save with ctrl-X, and say yes to write the file

Easiest thing is then to reboot ( alternative would involve rmmod ing
kernel modules , so I think we can be un-Linuxish about this for once, to
simplify matters)

On reboot, running

ip a | grep inet6

should come up empty

Whether this will help I don't know, but it's worth a shot. If it doesn't
help,  just remove the file

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/bad_list

Hope this helps....

Peter