From kfm-devel Thu Dec 07 09:05:41 2006 From: David Faure Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:05:41 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: Interesting thing with DNS requests Message-Id: <200612071005.42045.faure () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=116548235613785 On Thursday 07 December 2006 07:08, Fredrik Johansson wrote: > torsdag 07 december 2006 04:26 skrev Pavel Troller: > > > How is requiring 15x as much data to do the same thing not a bug? > > > Both apps running in the same environment implies that this has > > > nothing to with the DNS server performance--the konqueror client must > > > be issuing far more DNS requests than the Firefox client. > > > > Hi! > > Isn't it because KDE is by default trying IPv6 first when it detects that > > the machine is IPv6 enabled ? From my experiences, many DNSs still behave > > incorrectly on IPv6 (like AAAA or similar) queries so the additional > > traffic may be caused by this. Try to use tcpdump or wireshark to find, > > what your machine tries to query from the DNS. > > With regards, Pavel Troller > > > Hi, > > Is there an option to turn IPv6 of, if so where? Yes, export KDE_NO_IPV6=1 http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-?page=Environment+Variables -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).