[pydotorg-www] Fwd: website and ipv6

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Nov 27 01:37:06 CET 2010


> The problem I had was a very long timeout while the IPv6 connection
> failed, leading to the perception that python.org was responding very
> slowly.  Disabling IPv6 meant the client went directly to IPv4,
> bypassing the timeout.

This is not supposed to happen. The fallback should be immediate; no
packet should be sent even to the local ethernet. So there is likely
some misconfiguration in the local network going on.

Regards,
Martin


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