On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 21:46 -0500, John Pierce wrote: > I really would like to completely and utterly obliterate ipv6 once and > for all, as it seems to really bog down my system. What does it do, precisely? I've seen some things like mplayer take a bit longer to read something over the net, as it first tries to do an IPv6 lookup, then the IPv4 when the prior fails. At *some* stage this has to work neatly, there will be IPv6 instead of IPv4. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.