bad httplib latency due to IPv6 use

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 05:44:18 EDT 2012


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Hans Mulder <hansmu at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I have no experience with win7/64, but on earlier versions of Windows,
> there's a file named "hosts", somewhere in a system directory.  When
> looking up an IP address, this file is consulted first.  Removing the
> ::1 from the entry for localhost might be a sensible work-around.

It ought to be c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts if your Widows is
installed to default location. If localhost isn't there at all, you
can add a line for it.

ChrisA



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