Very slow opening of client connections to localhost with httplib

[Jarkko Torppa]

In article <8ce71920.0312120951.4c49b061 at posting.google.com>, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> I am using xmlrpclib (based on httplib) in Python 2.3 on Mandrake
> Linux.
> 
> When my client attempts to connect to a server using a
> "http://localhost:port" style URL there is a long delay before the
> connection is established (it finally works).
...
> import socket
> socket.getaddrinfo("localhost", 10000, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> 
> and sure enough it blocked for several seconds before finally
> returning 127.0.0.1
> 
> If I remplace the 0 in the getaddrinfo call above by socket.AF_INET
> all is fine as well.

Try adding
::1         localhost

to your /etc/hosts

Or delete IPv6 from your kernel.

-- 
Jarkko Torppa, Elisa Internet