Seems some people have a hard time believing that turning off ipv6 could be a possible solution to this problem... I have never faced the problem, and am not inclined to try to recreate the problem on my PC, but for the benefit of all doubters (yes YOU, Im talking about YOU. you know who YOU are), heres the page from where I picked that stuff...
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=322711&page=2&pp=15 the last post in that thread reads as follows ... "Had the same problem as originally discribed in this post - Konqueror would browse sites, but Firefox wouldn't. Also, neither GAIM or yum could access the internet (and I'm sure many other programs but I never checked). Managed to fix firefox by setting - 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to 'True' in about:config, but other programs like yum still didn't work. Totally disabled IPv6 in Fedora as per Simon's earlier post. Result - everything now works! Thanks very much everyone, if yours still doesn't work after this then good luck getting it sorted. D" Now, theres NO human way to guarantee that Rajgopal is facing the exact same problem (esp since his distro is different, atleast I think it is), but the 'symptoms' certainly sound the same, and if nothing else has worked yet, its time to try out the so-called 'outlandish' workarounds... Yours Sincerely, Karthik Raghavan --- Karthik Raghavan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some more info... > > If you have IPv6 enabled, try turning it off... > > type about:config in the Navbar/address bar and hit > Enter then look for network.dns.disableIPv6 - > right-click and toggle to true > Restart Firefox > > If that works with Firefox, you have to disable IPv6 > completely for the other apps to work... If you dont > want to recompile the kernel, edit modprobe.conf (or > equivalent) and add the following > > #Turn off IPv6 > alias net-pf-10 off > alias ipv6 off > > this command may vary with distros, I really have no > clue, this is just a cut and paste from elsewhere on > the internet... > > Cheers, > Karthik > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
