Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I'd try strace'ing the client process first --- whatever is slow might not be exposed as TCP traffic. It does sound though that the problem is related to userland expecting IPv6 support that the kernel doesn't actually have. regards, tom lane
