Pessimistic estimates say that the problem we suspect (a DNS proxy that cannot handle AAAA queries) affects about 0.5% of the global userbase. 50% of those can easily be fixed with a firmware upgrade of their router, which is usually a very good idea anyway.
I'm sure there are regions with higher rates if a large provider gave out broken systems, but generally saying that all Ubuntu 9.10 installations are affected and everyone has to purchase new routers is pure FUD. For the record, this bug can easily be tested with the following tools $ time dig -t a noc.sixxs.net +nofail | grep -e status -e A -e time ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26324 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;noc.sixxs.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: noc.sixxs.net. 85356 IN A 213.197.29.32 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ;; Query time: 1 msec real 0m0.025s user 0m0.016s sys 0m0.004s $ time dig -t aaaa noc.sixxs.net +nofail | grep -e status -e AAAA -e time ; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14731 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;noc.sixxs.net. IN AAAA ;; ANSWER SECTION: noc.sixxs.net. 85342 IN AAAA 2001:838:1:1:210:dcff:fe20:7c7c ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ;; Query time: 4 msec real 0m0.024s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.004s You are only affected _if_ the first query is fast, but the second query is very slow and/or shows something else than NOERROR in the first line (SERVFAIL or REFUSED for example). If the DNS query is fine you should not be affected. -- [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
