[PLUG] IPv6 resolved

[Michael M.]

A week or two ago, Elliot had suggested that the newer kernels licked 
the IPv6 bug that has plagued me for the past few months.  I installed 
Debian Etch on the new machine a few days ago and found, alas, that 
despite it using a 2.6.15 kernel, I still had all the same connection 
flakiness and still couldn't get anywhere without disabling IPv6.

Today I installed Arch Linux, which also uses a 2.6.15 kernel, and 
wonder of wonders, everything works.  No more having to ping servers 
before I can download packages, no more disabling of anything.  So it 
looks like that the problem is with Debian (and Ubuntu, and probably 
other Debian derivatives), although someone else reported similar issues 
with (IIRC) SuSE.  Maybe a networking guru could figure out what it is 
some distros are doing to mess up the packet routing.  Or maybe there 
are just too few people it affects for anyone to fix it.

So it looks like I *finally* have a free and clear connection, and it 
looks like I've found a new distro, which -- connection bonuses aside -- 
I'm really liking  so far.

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