{"id":1577,"date":"2019-10-13T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2019-10-13T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T21:59:24","slug":"ubuntu-18-04-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 18.04 Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On two new Ubuntu 18.04 installations, internet access was extremely slow on the first access of a website. I eventually tracked it down to IPv6 DNS, for instance:<br \/>\n<code>dig slashdot.org A<\/code><br \/>\nwould respond immediately, but<br \/>\n<code>dig slashdot.org AAAA<\/code><br \/>\nwould hang for a while then return<br \/>\n<code>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<\/code><br \/>\nI checked the name servers returned by my ISP that my router was using and they worked fine. It was only when using the default DNS returned by my router&#8217;s DHCP that it hung. The reason for this was that IPv6 was disabled at the router, a NetGear R6700v2. To fix, log in to the router&#8217;s administration web page and go to <em>Advanced<\/em> -&gt; <em>Advanced Setup<\/em> -&gt; <em>IPv6<\/em> and change <em>Internet Connection Type<\/em> from <em>Disabled<\/em> to <em>DHCP<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On two new Ubuntu 18.04 installations, internet access was extremely slow on the first access of a website. I eventually tracked it down to IPv6 DNS, for instance: dig slashdot.org A would respond immediately, but dig slashdot.org AAAA would hang for a while then return ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}