Adventures in IPv6
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Not being one to panic in such situations I persisted in troubleshooting these recurring problems which appeared to only affect the Mozilla browser.
Last night it ocurred to me to disable IPv6 on my workstation as a test and this caused all issues to vanish before my very eyes.
So, there appears to be some discrepancy between the network, IPv6, and my workstation.
Even with IPv6 turned off, the router's IPv6 configuration comes into play. I had a duplication of the issues after monkeying with the router's IPv6 settings which I ultimately disabled prior to rebooting it.
The threads indicate that Firefox is the program having the most issues with IPv6 ... with the literature pointing to a Firefox preference for IPv4. However, I also see that malwarebytes gets into a major tiz over it as well.
Naturally, all of my hardware diagnostics run totally clear of problem. I hit the NIC for a hundred rounds of testing with no issues being found.
I just love it when software vendors create dueling problems for me to attempt to troubleshoot as though I have absolutely nothing to do otherwise.
Likely the OS is using IPv6 preferentially these days ... I mean, seeing how IPv4 was "supposed" to be gone quite a while back.
Suffice it to say that the situation evolves whereas I was beginning to think I have somewhat of a handle on it at this juncture recent events prove otherwise and it is very frustrating on an episodic basis.
Through out these events the situation grows more annoying and how I long for Unix instead of Windoze in my activities of daily living.