On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:22:46AM -0500, Medora Schauer wrote: > Can it be that the connection delay is because first an IPv6 socket is > trying to be established and when that fails an IPv4 socket is created? A sniffer like tcpdump or ethereal might reveal why connecting is so slow. The problem might be with DNS queries for AAAA (IPv6) records prior to queries for A (IPv4) records; see this thread from almost a year ago: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg00216.php -- Michael Fuhr