Ubuntu
eglibc package

  1. Bug #417757
  2. Comment #220

Comment 220 for bug 417757

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Yermo (yml-yml) wrote : Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

My bad. It looks like what I described above is covered by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nss-mdns/+bug/94940

Editing /etc/nsswitch.conf and changing

   hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

to

   hosts: files dns

looks like it "fixes" this issue.