Bug#584495: Iceweasel terribly sluggish

[Jos van Wolput]

On 08/30/2010 10:19 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:

> Please note this line is not supposed to contain "localhost".
>
> The default is
> ::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

You're right, 'localhost' should not be there, but the line

::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

in /etc/hosts was set by netcfg during my Debian installation.

The same error has also happened in Ubuntu using the Debian Installer
according to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/285132

I discoverred this because I had a similar problem with the python
SimpleHTTPServer as
they had with Apache.

Removing "localhost" in this line resolves both issues!

Jos v.W.