Closed Bug 657426 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Support faster failover to IPv4 if IPv6 fails

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 621558

People

(Reporter: jduell.mcbugs, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Heard in a coal mine: From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> The canary build of Google Chrome implements a variant of parallel connect that reduces latency of broken IPv6 connections from 20 / 75 seconds to 300 milliseconds. In many cases (e.g., for hostnames you've already been before), it preconnects anyway, so by the time you've hit enter, there is no latency hit at all. It was pretty cool to see it load webpages instantly even with me completely dropping all IPv6 TCP packets. We should do the same.
True enough. Lower bug # wins.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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