Interesting thing with DNS requests

[Fredrik Johansson]

torsdag 07 december 2006 04:26 skrev Pavel Troller:
> > How is requiring 15x as much data to do the same thing not a bug?
> > Both apps running in the same environment implies that this has
> > nothing to with the DNS server performance--the konqueror client must
> > be issuing far more DNS requests than the Firefox client.
>
> Hi!
>   Isn't it because KDE is by default trying IPv6 first when it detects that
> the machine is IPv6 enabled ? From my experiences, many DNSs still behave
> incorrectly on IPv6 (like AAAA or similar) queries so the additional
> traffic may be caused by this. Try to use tcpdump or wireshark to find,
> what your machine tries to query from the DNS.
>               With regards, Pavel Troller


Hi, 

Is there an option to turn IPv6 of, if so where?

Also if that is the case shouldn't it try IPv6 once and if it fails go for 
plain IP for future requests?

Thank you all for your answers

Regards
Fredrik Johansson