Strange network hangs/delays with Firefox/Thunderbird/ssh

[Michael Neumann]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:39:17PM +0200, Michael Neumann wrote:
Hm, it's very strange. "w3m" (a text browser) actually works like hell,  
while "fetch" doesn't work. When I open the same page (your Hammer patch  
diff for example) in w3m, it appears immediatly, while when I try to  
fetch it with "fetch", it gets stuck in
Does fetch -4 work?
Yes it does! You found the problem!

So in Firefox/Thunderbird I have to use the following line and 
everything works out well:

  user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

  Michael