INET6 in world
Daniel C. Sobral
dcs at tcoip.com.br
Fri Aug 8 07:05:10 PDT 2003
Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:01:30AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
>>Terry Lambert wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>1) Machines do not ship with it enabled by default; a
>>> Windows user has about as much probability of doing
>>> the necessary work to enable it as they do of making
>>> something other than Internet Explorer their default
>>> browser.
>>>
>>>2) You have to go to a command line prompt and issue a
>>> cryptic command to enable it at all.
>>
>>Err, not at all. You go to install/remove additional windows components
>>(I do not recall the exact phrasing) and select IPv6.
>>
>>
>>>3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about
>>> it being experimental.
>>
>>I didn't. :-) And the bastard stopped doing A queries. :-)
>
>
> That'll be because, according to
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/administration/ipv6/default.asp
> there's no support in Windows XP's IPv6 stack for DNS.
I wonder about their definition of "support". There *were* queries being
made, but only AAAA. It never asked for A, even when IPv6 was disabled
in (but added to) the interface.
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