Any reason www.python.org is slow?

[Pierre Rouleau]

>
> It is possible that the way Linux (or some Linux setups: many of the
> recipes above are for Ubuntu, I use Mandriva myself) handles IPv6
> "connectivity" is suboptimal in some cases, and that connection
> attempts don't fail immediately when they should. I don't have enough
> knowledge to diagnose further.
>
>
Note that I am not using Linux.  I had the problem on OS/X 10.4.

I did another experiment.  I have VMWare Fusion on that computer and
have Linux Ubuntu 9.04 in one VMWare appliance.

I activated IPv6 on the OS/X Preference for the interface I am using.
Access to www.python.org went slow for Firefox and Safari running
directly under OS/X.  However, access for Firefox running inside
VMWare-based Linux Ubuntu 9.04 was fine!  I tried pages from Ubuntu
first, got them right away, then tried the same page under OS/X and
was waiting for over 10 seconds.

Regards

- Pierre