Re: cannot resolve hostname

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cannot resolve hostname
From: Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 11:37:12 -0400
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On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Bob McConnell <rmcconne@lightlink.com> wrote:
>>
>> (I don't know what all the IPv6 references are, but I assume that I can
>> safely ignore those).
>
> That is not a safe assumption. If you do not have an IPv6 capable router and
> DNS server, many applications will timeout before the IPv6 DNS request does.
>  You need to disable IPv6 completely. It may actually be causing your
> current problem.

Disabling ipv6 won't prevent ipv6 being made.

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