Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Aug 26 02:13:30 UTC 2009


Tim:
>> it just causes all sorts of bottlenecks as applications try to use
>> something that's just not going to work.

Michael Cronenworth:
> This is a myth and it needs to die. I've programmed a few IPv6 capable 
> apps and there is no performance hit from having IPv6 functionality on 
> non-IPv6 capable networks.

I call bullcrap on that.  Firefox, for instance, is well known for
taking ages, or even timing out, because it does an IPv6 DNS query for a
domain, and then can't make an IPv6 connection.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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