forums.ubports.com times out when running on an IPv6-enabled internet connection.

Dave

Hi,

forums.ubports.com currently fails to work for me, when using a HTTPS proxy, as the proxy appears to be less smart than Firefox in not quickly falling back to IPv4 when the IPv6 connection stalls.

This is easily reproduced via wget:

$ https_proxy= wget --timeout=5 -O/dev/null https://forums.ubports.com
--2023-07-11 09:48:29--  https://forums.ubports.com/
Resolving forums.ubports.com (forums.ubports.com)... 2a03:b0c0:2:d0::ebb:7001, 134.122.62.36
Connecting to forums.ubports.com (forums.ubports.com)|2a03:b0c0:2:d0::ebb:7001|:443... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to forums.ubports.com (forums.ubports.com)|134.122.62.36|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 138582 (135K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

If you do not support IPv6 operation, you maybe should not publish an AAAA record in your DNS!

$ dig forums.ubports.com AAAA
[..]
forums.ubports.com.	210	IN	AAAA	2a03:b0c0:2:d0::ebb:7001

cheers,

Dave

Moem

THANK YOU! I have spent months wondering why I could suddenly no longer read the forums on my browser of choice, and had to fall back on my secondary. You gave me the pointer I needed.