Kubuntu cheering up nicely

I would have greatly preferred kubuntu to just work straight out of the box. It didn't. At the moment, it's sitting there, looking pretty and installing new software (ekiga), courtesy of the 'Adept' package manager. To be fair to kubuntu, a very great number of people complaining online about the DNS resolution to 1.0.0.0 issue appear to have the same ADSL router as me. A D-link DSL-G604T. After reading all the comments, I'm still not convinced who to blame. Some blame it on incorrectly used IPv6 on the PC, or incorrectly handled IPv6 at the router. My Slackware machines work a treat with my router, but I habitually download the latest kernel from www.kernel.org and build it myself without IPv6. A great number of the workarounds for this problem require edits to the kubuntu system files. I don't think that's right: If it was really kubuntu's fault, I'm sure the maintainers would do that to the distribution. The workaround I'm using now is to turn off DNS relay on the router, and to manually set my ISP's DNS nameservers. That's not right either. I'm relying now on my ISP not changing the IP address of their DNS equipment.

Everything seems to be working just fine for now. It's a lingering disappointment though. I think perhaps I had this problem once with my Slackware installations here, but Windows never presented this problem. I suspect a great many Slackware users build their own kernels, it feels like 'the right thing to do' with Slackware. My expectation for kubuntu is that somebody has already taken care of selecting the best mix of software, and that I don't have to maintain it. Since kubuntu is on my wife's PC, any suggestion that I'm 'fixing' it will swiftly lead to its replacement with Windows. More later, I expect.

Later Edit: That change to the router didn't help. It must have just coincided with something else I was doing on the PC. The adept package manager is still 'waiting for headers 0%', unless I open a console and ping the security.ubuntu.com and my.archive.ubuntu.com servers. Or maybe that's a coincidence too. Aaarg!